National Gallery of Australia
Closes April 21
The National Gallery has had a long history of staging huge exhibitions of ancient cultures, such as Civilisation: Ancient treasures from the British Museum (1990) and Egyptian Antiquities from the
National Gallery of Australia
Closes April 21
The National Gallery has had a long history of staging huge exhibitions of ancient cultures, such as Civilisation: Ancient treasures from the British Museum (1990) and Egyptian Antiquities from the Louvre (2007).
This major exhibition is devoted to the ancient cultures of Peru.
The 200 objects, from the 17 ancient cultures that dominated Peru leading up to the Inca Empire (1400s-1530s), are drawn almost exclusively from Peruvian collections, namely the Museo Nacional de Arqueologia, Antropologia e Historia del Peru and its fraternal collections, the Museo Larco, the Amano Museum and the Museo Oro del Peru. It is also supplemented by objects from the National Gallery's own collection. The exhibition is the National Gallery's contribution to the Australia-Latin America year of cultural exchange, and is organised in co-operation with the Peruvian Ministry of Culture.
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