LECTURES & LITERATURE

    The Shape of Things to Come: Developing Collections of Antiquities and Archaeological Materials

    The Shape of Things to Come: Developing Collections of Antiquities and Archaeological Materials

    Presented by University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum)

    October 6, 2011


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    Timothy Rub, The George D. Widener Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is the featured speaker. Given the increasingly polarized debate about the acquisition and presentation of antiquities and archaeological materials in art museums, what options might be available to these institutions to enable them to continue to develop their collections and to present a broad and reasonably up-to-date survey of the art of the ancient world?


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        University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum)

        3260 South Street
        Philadelphia, PA 19104

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        Info Phone: 215-898-2680

      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        October 6, 2011

        Times:

        6 pm

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