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Opening the Treasure Box

Ongoing

    Gallery of antiquities at the Staten Island Museum
    Opening the Treasure Box. Amessé Photography.

    Presenting art objects spanning 5,000 years of artistic endeavor gathered from five continents: Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America.

    Countries represented include Germany, Greece, India, Japan, Liberia, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, and the United States. The oldest piece is an Egyptian funerary statuette of a striding man, dating from 2,000 BCE.

    Acknowlegements

    This exhibition is supported in part by The Staten Island Foundation, Richmond County Savings Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

    Staten Island Foundation logo    Richmond County Savings Foundation logo    NEH logo

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