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Reconstructing Antiquity  was a collaborative project between the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum and the Yale University Art Gallery, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Over the course of a two-year exhibition, faculty, students, alumnae, and museum professionals helped to unravel the unique stories of ancient objects from the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum and the Yale University Art Gallery's permanent collections. This website is the result of their independent research and course projects, presenting new ideas, insights, and findings that helped visitors explore the ancient cultures of Greece and Rome. Although the exhibition, Reconstructing Antiquity, has now come to a close, many of the objects can be seen in the permanent collection galleries of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum and the Yale University Art Gallery.On View 21 September 2010 - 3 June 2012  Browse the exhibition archive by the three thematic gallery installations to select objects for deeper investigation. Interdisciplinary explorations invite you to look closely and examine issues such as an object’s creation and original function, historic, mythological, and literary references, dispersal, and preservation.Object List Consider the broader contexts of these objects by reading the thematic text panels displayed in the exhibition as well as relevant articles. Each resource also suggests related objects for further exploration.Resource List

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