Curator's tour: Casting new light on Classical sculpture
Curator's tour: Casting new light on Classical sculpture
event
Friday 25 September 2020
schedule
11.00am - 12.00pm BST
event
Friday 25 September 2020
schedule
11.00am - 12.00pm BST
The Museum of Classical Archaeology is home to more than 450 casts of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture. But why do we have a collection of copies or 'fakes'? Join us for a virtual guided tour of the casts and their history, ancient and modern.
Watch a recording of the tour on YouTube
Speaker
Dr Susanne Turner (Darwin 2004)
Dr Susanne Turner is Curator at the Museum of Classical Archaeology. Her research background is in classical sculpture and viewing. After completing a doctorate at the University of Cambridge on classical Attic funerary monuments, she was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Reading before returning to Cambridge to look after the Museum's world famous collection of casts of Greek and Roman sculpture.
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