Antiquities Exhibits

Art of the ancient world at The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, Russia. The ancient collection of the Pushkin State Museum currently includes more than 37,000 pieces. Antique art is dedicated to 8 rooms on the first and second floors of the Main building with a special hall dedicated to Heinrich Schliemann's "Gold of Troy". Works include not only original pieces from Cyprus, Greece, Etruria, Rome, Egypt, and Mesopot amia, but casts from major objects held in other museums including the Museo Archeologico in Naples, the Louvre, the Vatican Museums, the British Museum, the Cairo Museum, and the Antik Sammlung in Berlin. The art of ancient Greece and Rome was a particular interest of the museum's founder, Ivan Tsvetaev, and initially 12 out of 20 rooms were dedicated to it. Galleries containing objects from ancient Egypt and the Near East were updated in 2012 as part of the museum's 100th anniversary. A new hall was also added to house the museum...

“Mycenaean Greece: The Legendary World of Agamemnon” from December 1, 2018 through June 2, 2019 at the Schloss Karlsruhe Museum in Karlsruhe, Germany.   The so-called Mask of Agamemnon which was discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in 1876 at Mycenae, now believed to pre-date the legendary Trojan War by 300 years.  Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons  user Xuan Che. Over four hundred priceless artifacts, most of them traveling for the first time out of Greece, will be presented at The Schloss Karlsruhe Museum in a one-of-a-kind exhibit. Titled “Mycenaean Greece: The Legendary World of Agamemnon,” it will feature the priceless golden mask of Agamemnon, discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in 1876 as well as an ancient “crown” found in a tomb in Routsi on exhibit for the first time and the artifacts from the “Griffin Warrior” tomb, discovered near Pylos in May 2015 — one of the most important archaeological finds in Greece of the last 65 years.