Free for members and children under 6. Admission discounts first Thursday each month. There's nothing unusual about being forgotten. Most people are forgotten.
Whole cultures sink without a trace and nobody's the wiser.
What is unusual is that the ancient Sichuans surfaced after a long oblivion to claim our attention with wonderful things. There was a record, after all. Organized by Jay Xu, SAM's curator of Chinese art who was present when the unexpected Sichuan artifacts were being dug out of the earth in 1986, the show will travel to Fort Worth's Kimbell Art Museum, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum before returning to China late next year. The Sichuans weren't the only cultural high-rollers of the Bronze Age. 1200 B.C. In Egypt, the Great Pyramids at Giza were already standing, and so was the megalithic monument known as Stonehenge, on the Salisbury Plain in southern England.