Re-examining the history of Cypriot antiquities in the Fitzwilliam Museum: in G. Bourogiannis and C. Muhlenbock eds., 2017. (original) (raw)
2017, Ancient Cyprus Today: Museum Collections and New Research
Re-examining the history of Cypriot antiquities in the Fitzwilliam Museum: a closer look at the collection’s past and future, in G. Bourogiannis and C. Muhlenbock eds., Ancient Cyprus Today: Museum Collections and New Research (SIMA pocket-book 184), Uppsala 2016, p.13-19. This paper provides an overview of the history and development of the Fitzwilliam Museum’s Cypriot collection from the late 19th century to the present day, with reference to the excavators, collectors, Museum Keepers and curators, as well as Cambridge and non-Cambridge related researchers, who created and augmented it. It further examines how the Fitzwilliam Museum’s Cypriot collection remains connected with the smaller, albeit significant groups of Cypriot material housed in two more Cambridge museums, the Museum of Classical Archaeology and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. It concludes by presenting the future challenges and plans for the Fitzwilliam’s Cypriot collection as well as for the A.G. Leventis Cyprus Gallery, where a large part of the collection is currently on display.
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