By: Pieter Broucke, Associate Curator of Ancient Art and Professor of History of Art and Architecture In the fall of 1996, the Middlebury College Museum of Art received a gift from John Paul Wallach, Middlebury alumnus from the class of 1964, and his w……Continue Reading Neo-Sumerian Record Keeping: A Cuneiform Tablet Fragment from a Mesopotamian Archive
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Piecing Together Cultural Context: Ancient Greek Painted Pottery Sherds
By: Pieter Broucke, Associate Curator of Ancient Art and Professor of History of Art and Architecture The Middlebury College Museum holds a collection of some thirty Ancient Greek pottery sherds that as small primary sources greatly enhance the teachin……Continue Reading Piecing Together Cultural Context: Ancient Greek Painted Pottery Sherds
Label Talk: Museum Mosaics—One Object, Many Voices
During a 2019 re-installation of an Early Byzantine floor fragment, Museum staff invited three members of our community—an artist, an ecologist, and an archaeologist—to offer their perspectives on this mosaic. Recognizing that there are many ways to in……Continue Reading Label Talk: Museum Mosaics—One Object, Many Voices
Due Diligence in the Acquisition of Antiquities
By: Richard Saunders, Director The question has been raised whether we at the Middlebury College Museum of Art did “due diligence” in our recent acceptance of a gift of approximately 1,000 coins, and as director here for many years, I … Continue ……Continue Reading Due Diligence in the Acquisition of Antiquities