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Gallery Talk: Ancient Mummy Portraits

Mummy Portrait of a Woman with Earrings, c. 130–40 CE. Encaustic on linden wood.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross, 1923.60.

Gallery Talk

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Elizabeth Molacek, the Frederick Randolph Grace Curatorial Fellow in Ancient Art, and Georgina Rayner, the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Conservation Science, will give today’s gallery talk.

Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.

Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk. Museums staff will be on hand to collect tickets.

Gallery talks are offered by curators, conservators, fellows, and other museums staff; they focus on aspects of the installation process, exploring both intellectual and more practical considerations. Museums staff will, for example, tease out arguments at play in the galleries, discuss conservation treatments, look closely at specific collections, or draw connections between works of art throughout the museums.