EXHIBITION CLOSING: The New Galleries: A Collection Come to Light

"The New Galleries: A Collection Come to Light" is a comprehensive and dynamic reinstallation of the museum's collection. Eight new galleries are dedicated to specific collection areas highlighting many of the museum's masterworks while illustrating a history of human creativity. The Ancient World covers a broad geographical and chronological reach, featuring works from ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman cultures. Medieval Europe displays important architectural sculpture, devotional objects and stained glass from the Romanesque and Gothic periods. European Art, 1400-1900, illustrates cultural and aesthetic changes from the Renaissance to the dawn of the modern period through a variety of objects, paintings and sculptures.