The Museum of the Mind: Art and memory in world cultures
15 April – 7 September 2003
Room 35
Exhibition closed
To celebrate our 250th anniversary, this major display
incorporates the whole Museum and its collection. At its heart 60
key objects illustrate the subject of memory across different
cultures and time.
The exhibition celebrates the Museum itself as a receptacle of
memory and explores the concepts of portraiture, identity, ritual,
currency, funerary and commemorative sculpture, shrines and
festivals. Souvenirs and memorabilia from before the 4th millenium
BC are featured along with evidence of deliberate attempts to
distort and efface memory.
Supported by BP
Image: Reliquary of St Eustace, Basle,
Switzerland, around AD 1210