The Joslyn Art Museum presents To Live Forever. Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum, an exhibition on view February 11 through June 3, 2012. Anthropoid Coffin of the Servant of the Great Place, Teti, New [Read More]
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The Ashmolean Museum presents Unwrapped. The Story of a Child Mummy, an exhibition on view to 4th March 2012. Ashmolean Museum of Art and ArchaeologyThe Museum hosts an installation of contemporary work by artist Angela [Read More]
CINCINNATI – On August 24, 79 A.D., Mount Vesuvius erupted for the first time in 1,700 years. The force of the explosion was ten times more powerful than the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. [Read More]
The Birmingham Museum of Art opens The Look of Love. Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection, an exhibition on view from February 7, 2012 to June 10, 2012. Exquisite in craftsmanship, unique in detail, and [Read More]
Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero and co-founder and managing director of The Carlyle Group David M. Rubenstein have unveiled the newly restored and encased 1297 Magna Carta, which is on loan to [Read More]
The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University presents The Invention of Glory: Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries a set of four recently restored 15th-century tapestries, known as the Pastrana tapestries, on view February 5 [Read More]
The Tampa Museum of Art presents From Utility to Aesthetics in Ancient Artwork exhibition an exhibition on view March 10, 2012 – January 6, 2013. Often beautiful in form and adorned with striking images, artifacts [Read More]
First exhibition to examine ancient nomadic culture of Kazakhstan includes recently excavated, never-displayed material The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University (ISAW) presents the first U.S. exhibition to provide [Read More]
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts presents The Mourners. Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy an exhibition on view JAN 21, 2012 – APR 15, 2012 in the Mellon Focus Galleries. Sculpture Mourner No. [Read More]
CINCINNATI – In August, 2008, representatives from the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT), City of Cincinnati, and Hamilton County reviewed the potential impacts to the archaeological resources from the planned relocation and realignment of Mehring [Read More]
The Charleston Museum presents Blasted: Assorted Projectiles and Explosives of the Civil War an exhibition on view January 13 through September 10, 2012. This original exhibition explores the varied and sometimes revolutionary artillery shells and [Read More]
Research recently revealed that the Rijksmuseum’s monumental bronze statue of Shiva was cast in solid bronze. The thousand-year-old temple statue was X-rayed, along with the lorry transporting it, in the most powerful X-ray tunnel for [Read More]
The Walters Art Museum presents Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas: The John Bourne Collection Gift an exhibition of 135 artworks from cultures that rose and fell in Mexico, Central America and Andean South America [Read More]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents Duncan Phyfe. Master Cabinetmaker in New York, an exhibition on view December 20, 2011 – May 6, 2012. Unidentified artist, Shop and Warehouse of Duncan Phyfe, 168–172 Fulton Street, [Read More]
The Wallace Collection in London presents The Noble Art of the Sword: Fashion and Fencing in Renaissance Europe an exhibition on view Thursday 17th May, 2012 – Sunday 16th September, 2012, which celebrates the artistic [Read More]
The China Institute Gallery in New York presents Theater, Life, and the Afterlife. Tomb Decor of the Jin Dynasty from Shanxi an exhibition on view February 9—June 17, 2012. Character of Zhuanggu (male role acting [Read More]
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston presents Aphrodite and the Gods of Love on view through February 20, 2012, in the Lois and Michael Torf Gallery. Head of Aphrodite (“The Bartlett Head” ), Greek, about [Read More]
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts presents Edo Pop. The Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints on view through January 8, 2012. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) is home to one of the world’s great collections [Read More]