THE GETTY MUSEUM AND THE ANCIENT WORLD: SOME NEW PERSPECTIVES

Lecture | Vienna

Gerda Schwarz-Lecture

Timothy Potts | Director of J. Paul Getty Museum

»The Getty Museum and the Ancient World: Some New Perspectives«

Timothy Potts is the director of the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and expert in the art, history and archaeology of the Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean region. In this lecture, he speaks about the goals of the museum to explore new, more expansive research agendas that reorient our cultural and geographical perspectives to include much greater expanses of time and space - at a time when the role of museums, and the collecting of antiquities in particular, is being challenged.

This first Gerda Schwarz Lecture, which is organised in cooperation with the OeAW commission „Transformation processes and empire in the ancient afroeurasian worlds“ and the Austrian Archeological Institute of the OeAW, is held in honor of the Austrian archaeologist Gerda Schwarz, who was professor of classical archaeology at the University of Graz and corresponding member of the Austrian Archaeological Institute.

More information about the event can be found here.
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