Treasures of the World's Cultures
The Treasures of the World’s Cultures
exhibition brings together objects from the unparalleled collection
of the British Museum. It is formed of artefacts from all
historical eras and from all parts of the world.
From a stone stool that represents the first technology of our
earliest human ancestors, the exhibition surveys human culture
across civilisations, tracing the history of mankind from
prehistory to the modern age.
The displayed material is both materially and visually diverse,
ranging from life-size classical sculptures to exquisite gold
jewellery excavated in ancient Mesopotamia, from drawings by
Renaissance masters to Native North American animal-skin coats.
The exhibition is divided into seven principle sections, the
objects being organised according to geography and chronology.
Object descriptions and introductory texts will encourage audiences
to compare and contrast human experience and cultural achievement
across time and place.
The Treasures exhibition allows the
visitor to experience, in a distilled form, the breadth and
diversity of the British Museum collection as it is presented in
London.
Royal
British Columbia Museum, Victoria, Canada
1 May 2009 – 30
September 2009
Image: Detail of The Lewis Chessmen