Its concentrations include art from antiquity, the Byzantine world, tribal cultures, and the twentieth century. The Museum of Antiquities houses full scale replicas of Greek, Roman, and Medieval sculpture, the originals of which are housed in such famous museums as the British Museum and the Louvre. The Cycladic collection is ancient art from the Cyclades Island culture between 3200 and 200 b.c.e. Oriental Institute Museum - University of Chicago. Part of the university's Oriental Institute, which has supported research and archaeological excavation in the Near East since 1919, the Museum exhibits major collections of antiquities from Egypt, Mesopotamia, Iran, Syria, Palestine, and Anatolia.
Site includes some photographs of objects in the collection.
With a collection of over 800 examples of Greek art and archaeology, the museum has gained international notice for its important collection from the Greek world. Use at your own risk. Thank you for visiting our site devoted to art museums, history museum, science museums, archaeology museums, anthropology museums, natural history museums, zoos, arboretums, planetariums, and sites of historical interest for travelers, children, educators, families, and artists. We have archives and indexes of paintings, sculpture, ceramics, watercolors, prints, photography and 3-D art and design. We also have links to maritime museums, aviation museums, holocaust memorial museums, folk-art museums, outsider art museums, local history museums, asian art museums, Picasso paintings and museums, Van Gogh paintings and museums, Monet paintings and museums, and Salvador Dali paintings and museums.