Bright gallery with white pedestals showcasing a variety of stone statues and objects in glass cases.
Special Installation

Arts of the Ancient Americas

Joanne Pillsbury and Laura Filloy Nadal standing in front of a female sculpture in the Ancient Americas galleries of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing

Exhibition Tour—Arts of the Ancient Americas

Celebrate the renovation and reopening of the Arts of the Ancient Americas galleries in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.

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Joanne Pillsbury and Laura Filloy Nadal standing in front of a female sculpture in the Ancient Americas galleries of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing
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Join Joanne Pillsbury, Andrall E. Pearson Curator of Ancient American Art, and curator Laura Filloy Nadal, along with Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director and CEO, and special guest Alejandro de Avila to celebrate the renovation and reopening of the Arts of the Ancient Americas galleries in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.
July 17
Nilda Callañaupa Alvarez looks at a weaving in the Arts of the Ancient Americas textile gallery
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“For me, living and producing textiles goes along with your life, along with your age, along with your everyday activity, that's why it is a living art, it’s not a piece that's from the past.”
July 14
Gilded copper owl secured to a silvered copper disk
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See a virtual reconstruction of this remarkable Moche shield.
May 28
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Double Crocodile Pendant, Gold, shell, Cocle (Macaracas)
The earliest evidence of metallurgy found in the Isthmus of Panama can be dated between the second and third centuries CE.
May 27
A flying panel metate (tablelike object of stone) with five felines worked into the legs on the metate's underside
Ancient artists of Costa Rica demonstrated great skill in creating stone works such as metates, zoomorphic and anthropomorphic figures, and spheres.
May 21
Bare-chested female ceramic figure wearing a multistrand necklace with a sizable pendant and a decorated head cover.
Artistic representations of power emerged from multiple cultural traditions in coastal Ecuador during the period between 300 BCE and 600 CE.
May 7
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