Art Loaned to the Beijing World Art Museum

A rotating exhibit on Great Civilizations at the Beijing World Art Museum in Beijing China will open a display on Mesopotamian art and archaeology this month, using objects on loan from the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Artifacts to be loaned to China for the two year period beginning September 28, 2006 include a selection of 48 objects from Penn's Mesopotamian collection, such as the famous, carved Assyrian relief panel from the Northwest Palace at Nimrud, jewelry from the Royal Cemetery of Ur, a famed head of Gudea, and an inlaid column from Tell al Ubaid.

The other exhibition sections, and loaning institutions, include India, with objects loaned by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rome (loans from various Italian museums); Greece (loans from various Italian museums); Egypt (loans from the Turin Museum, Italy), and the Maya loans from The Bowers Museum of Culture Art, California).