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1 13 January 2010 Brand new look for world-class collection of Greek and Roman antiquities Rediscovering Greece & Rome : Museum s newly-redisplayed gallery opens 30 January 2010 From 30 January 2010, visitors will experience The Fitzwilliam Museum s collection of Greek and Roman antiquities in a completely new light, thanks to a 950,000 gallery refurbishment. The Greek and Roman Gallery, one of the Fitzwilliam s most popular spaces, has been the focus of an intensive eighteenth-month period of conservation, research and redisplay, during which time it has been closed to the public. The gallery had remained fundamentally unchanged since the 1960s, and the Museum s redisplay will bring this world-class collection of antiquities into the 21 st century - creating a new modern setting that complements the gallery s 19 th -century architecture and vastly enhancing the visitor experience with improved object display, lighting and layout. The Fitzwilliam Museum s collection of Greek and Roman antiquities boasts superb Greek vases, sculpture, sarcophagi and figurines, as well as funerary items and everyday objects from ancient times, from dress pins and helmets to a year old cosmetics box. These treasures many of them specially conserved for these displays - will receive new prominence in their completely refurbished surroundings, where less well-known areas of the collection will also be showcased. The primary focus of the new displays is upon people the figures who, across the centuries, have given these objects their appearance and shaped their history. New object information aims to build up an illuminating picture of the artists and craftsmen who created the works, the customers who commissioned or used them, and the collectors, restorers and conservators who have affected the way they look today. The new gallery has been redesigned in collaboration with historians and classical archaeologists from the University of Cambridge s Classics Faculty, and reflects some of the questions that are being currently asked about the ancient world. The new display, arranged in a loosely chronological order, explores such issues as: what did people do at drinking parties? How did they relate to their gods? How did they remember the dead? The display also reveals the more recent history of the objects how did they come to Cambridge, and what has happened to them since? A map and timeline will show gallery visitors the close relationship between - continues- Marble head of a sphinx (Italy, c.100 BC) Amphora (wine-jar) in fired clay (Athens, BC) Griffin-head cauldron attachment (Greek island of Samos, 640 BC) Conservator Julie Dawson examines a piece of funerary sculpture Trumpington Street

2 the Greek and Roman worlds, giving visitors a greater sense of the time and place these objects came from. The refurbishment itself has also uncovered some surprising finds. When museum staff removed a series of ancient stone inscriptions from one of the gallery s false walls, they discovered a time capsule placed there by their predecessors who had carried out the previous gallery refurbishment in the 1960s. Within this secret hiding place which has stayed undiscovered in the Museum for nearly 50 years staff found an edition of the Cambridge News dated Friday 10 May 1963 and a selection of contemporary coins, alongside the names of the 1960s team, which had been carved into the cement surround. Timothy Potts, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum said: The Fitzwilliam s collection of Greek and Roman antiquities is of international significance, so I am delighted that we now have a superbly redesigned space in which to display it to its full potential. This new presentation, which is based on recent research and conservation work, will offer many fresh insights, not only to new visitors, but also to those who are familiar with the collection. The gallery redisplay is the first result of an ongoing research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to explore and publish the Museum s Greek and Roman collection. Details for publication: Rediscovering Greece & Rome Gallery reopens 30 January ends / Notes to editors Antinous as the god Dionysos (Italy, AD ) Clay pyxis (container) for cosmetics or jewellery (Athens, c.740 BC) Members of the Greek and Roman gallery team clean a Roman sarcophagus for redisplay This major refurbishment has been made possible by the generous support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the J.F. Costopoulos Foundation, the DCMS / Wolfson Museums & Galleries Improvement Fund, the Greek Ministry of Culture, the A.G. Leventis Foundation, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Renaissance East of, the Schilizzi Foundation, Denis and Minouche Severis, Trinity College, Cambridge, and other individual benefactors. Please note: the A. G. Leventis Gallery of Cypriot Antiquity (gallery 22) has also been closed since August 2008 to allow for the refurbishment, and will re-open alongside the neighbouring Greek and Roman gallery. Press preview: Wednesday 27 January between and With Dr Timothy Potts, Director; Dr Lucilla Burn, Keeper of Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam; Professor Mary Beard of the University of Cambridge's Classics Faculty; and Professor Paul Cartledge, A G Leventis Professor Trumpington Street of Greek Culture at Cambridge (12-1pm). For further information, contact the Marketing and Press Office (below)

3 The Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, OPEN: Tuesday - Saturday: Sundays and Bank Holiday Mondays: Closed Mondays, and Good Friday ADMISSION FREE Further information and images from: Marketing and Press Office The Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, Telephone: +44 (0) /332900; FAX: +44 (0) Notes for Editors The Fitzwilliam Museum The Fitzwilliam Museum houses the University of Cambridge's art collection and is a public museum and art gallery with an international reputation. More than half a million objects and works of art are held in five curatorial departments: Antiquities, Applied Arts, Coins and Medals, Manuscripts and Printed Books and Paintings, Drawings and Prints. The Fitzwilliam s treasures range from Ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities to the arts of the 21 st century and include masterpieces by Titian, Canaletto, Stubbs, Constable, Monet, Renoir and Picasso, one of the world s foremost Rembrandt print collections, Handel music manuscripts and the famous Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, one of the most significant collections of Korean ceramics outside South-East Asia, medieval illuminated manuscripts and outstanding collections of pottery, porcelain and medieval coins. The Fitzwilliam Museum welcomes over 300,000 visitors a year, offers a wide-ranging programme of temporary exhibitions and events, and has an award-winning Education Service. The Museum is open Tuesday Saturday: , Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays: Free admission. Website: Trumpington Street

4 Available press images for Rediscovering Greece & Rome Greek and Roman Gallery reopens 30 January 2010 For information and images, contact the Marketing and Press Office Telephone:

5 CAPTIONS AND CREDITS All images The Fitzwilliam Museum 1. Conservator Julie Dawson examines an incomplete piece of stone funerary sculpture This would have functioned as a grave marker, and the top is in the shape of a palmette (a fan-shaped ornament resembling palm leaves). 2. Conserving a large mosaic niche This niche, made c. AD and found near Naples, would originally have stood against the walls of a garden or courtyard, and features a garden scene that includes peacocks, other birds and leafy plants. Cockle shells are also set into the plaster. 3.. An item from the Museum s superb collection of Greek vases is examined by Christina Rozeik 4 Two gallery technicians clean a Roman sarcophagus for redisplay This stone coffin, known as the 'Strigil sarcophagus', weighs over three quarters of a tonne, and was made in Greece from A.D AD 300. Its relief panels depict scenes featuring the god Dionysios. 5. The Greek and Roman Gallery in the late 19th century This image indicates how little the space had changed up to The last major refurbishment of the gallery was in the 1960s. 6. Detail of a drinking cup (Athens, BC) A close-up of the cup s interior, showing a reclining banqueter. 7. Mask of Helios, (Greece, AD ) This marble mask is a fragment of a sarcophagus lid. 8. Clay pyxis (container) for cosmetics or jewellery (Athens, c.740 BC) The lid of this ancient make-up box would have originally been decorated with three horses, but only one survives. The unusual preservation of this container makes it likely to have come from a grave. 9. Marble head of a sphinx (Italy, c.100 BC) This head is most likely based on a Greek representation of the sphinx made 300 years earlier. The sphinx - a winged monster with the head of a woman and body of a lion - was a popular decoration on Greek graves. 10. Griffin-head cauldron attachment (Greek island of Samos, 640 BC) This hollow head once decorated the rim of a huge bronze cauldron which was probably an expensive offering dedicated in a Greek sanctuary. This kind of griffin motif imitates similar, earlier examples from the Near East. 11. Amphora (wine-jar) in fired clay (Athens, BC) This amphora depicts a warrior and a youth with a horse taking leave of Athena. Closer inspection reveals preliminary sketch lines, showing how the artist changed his minds over the position of the horse s reins. 12. Clay mask for an actor, depicting a wavy-haired leading slave (Greek Islands, 200 BC-101 BC) This mask would have been worn by an actor performing what is known as New Comedy, a type of drama that developed around BC, and that featured ordinary people, such as lovers kept apart by angry parents.

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