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The British Museum’s ancient Greek treasures arrive in Australia and New Zealand “Ancient Greeks: Athletes, Warrior, Heroes”
The exhibition entitled
“Ancient Greeks: Athletes, Warriors, Heroes” will take place at the West Australian State Museum in June and will head to the National Museum of Australia (NMA) in Canberra from December 17 across the Tasman Sea. Head to Auckland. , New Zealand in 2022.
Logistical challenges in bringing international exhibitions to Australia due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, prompted the rescheduling of
Ancient Greeks.
The highly anticipated
Ancient Greeks exhibition will now come to the Australasian region in 2021, as part of a partnership between the British Museum, the National Museum of Australia, the Western Australian Museum, and the Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum.
One of the Hellenistic busts currently exhibited in the British Museum. Credit: Nic McPhee/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 2.0The British Museum has partnered with multiple museums in Australia to bring over enough objects to display an Ancient Greek exhibit in the Southern Hemisphere.The exhibition, named Ancient Greeks: Athletes, Warriors and Heroes from the British Museum, will arrive…