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Exhibitions - Worcester Art Museum
 
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Wall at WAM: Alexander Ross
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An American Vision: Treasures from the Winterthur Museum
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Rescuing the Ruins
City of Antioch
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A full range of educational and social events and material is available to help you immerse yourself in Antioch: The Lost Ancient City.

Plan on first seeing the show at the opening night party on October 7. Leave your gowns and tuxes at home, and don your kakhis and pith helmet for an archaeological dig of a lifetime!

A short video - using 1930s film footage, still photographs, and quotes from the excavation diaries - is a key introductory tool to the show. The exhibition is also integrated into the Museum's ongoing youth and adult education classes, free school tours, and free public tours. Other programs are available, as well, including a four-part lectures series, Teachers' Workshops, a Family Day, and artists' demonstrations on mosaic, glass, and metalworking techniques and applications.

Information resources, including published research and copies of the original field reports of the Antioch excavation, are available to educators and the public in the Worcester Art Museum Library. These resources, located in a special shelving in the Reading Room of the library, have been compiled to stimulate and enrich teaching, learning and research. The public is invited to browse the shelf. Slides of the mosaics in the exhibition are also available for browsing or borrowing. For the library hours and slide loaning policies, see the Worcester Art Museum Library.

In addition, Antioch: The Lost Ancient City is the focus of ArtSmart, an art education outreach program presented in collaboration with Centro Las Americas, a Worcester social service agency supporting the rapidly growing Latino population in Worcester County.

As a special bonus, the North American Branch of the International Association for the Study of Ancient mosaics (AIEMA) will hold the 8th annual Colloquium on Ancient and Medieval Mosaics and Painting from November 18-19, 2000, at the Worcester Art Museum. This event is co-sponsored by the Classics Seminar of Centre Universitaire de Luxembourg (SEMANT) in collaboration with Clark University's European Center in Luxembourg.


Last Updated: December 14, 2000