Mead Art Museum, Art museum at Amherst College, US
The Mead Art Museum maintains a collection of 19,000 artworks, including American art, European paintings, Russian art, Mexican ceramics, and Tibetan scroll paintings.
In 1857, the museum acquired ancient Assyrian relief panels from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II in Nimrud, dating from 879 BCE, depicting the king's power symbols.
The museum houses the Rotherwas Room, an English Jacobean-style chamber from 1611 featuring carved oak mantelpiece and walnut wall paneling from Herefordshire.
Located on the Amherst College campus, the Mead Art Museum offers free admission and organizes regular exhibition openings and student-led tours throughout the academic year.
The museum displays monumental Assyrian relief carvings weighing two tonnes, transported from Nimrud in the 1850s and exhibited in the dedicated Nineveh Gallery.
Location: Amherst
Inception: 2020
Part of: Amherst College, Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium
Website: http://amherst.edu/mead
GPS coordinates: 42.37089,-72.51547
Latest update: March 8, 2025 01:19
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