Saturday, November 22, 2008

Here Comes the Sun

Current Exhibition:



Andeformete bronsekar fra Slovakia og Ungarn. Andeformete bronsekar from Slovakia and Hungary. Foto: The Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, Ungarn. Photo: The Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, Hungary. Copyright. Copyright. Duck shaped bronze vessels from Slovakia and Hungary. Duck shaped bronze vessels from Slovakia and Hungary.




Bronselurene from Revheim, Sola. Foto: Terje Tveit, AmS. Photo: Terje Tveit, AMS. Copyright. Copyright. The bronze lurs from Revheim, Sola. The bronze lurs from Revheim, Sola.


The Sun Chariot - photo from the Danish Pre-history Museum
Link to see & read about the original: www.nationalmuseet.dk/sw59869.asp
(Note: a copy in the Stavanger Arkeologisk Museum...from catalog, it's an unnumbered copy)
The sun's journey


Rogaland in the European Bronze Age

The 25 September 2008 open the museum in Stavanger doors for a unique Bronze Age exhibition.

The exhibition theme is the contexts of Europe at that time, both in idéverden and in the form-related expression.
This period is a period where the archaeological material has a very expressive common over much of Europe - from Maharashtra to Crete, and from Ireland to the Caspian Sea.

We will collect the Bronze Age material from their own collections, and objects from Maharashtra found in other museums in Norway.

These objects, we view the relationship they once were part of, through innlån from various European museums.

Including to the European community, and diversity be expressed in the Bronze Age material form and decoration.

This will thus be the core of the exhibition, richly supplemented with gold.
(Note: the intro translation above is from this link, the webpage is in Norwegian, you can then copy&paste the address into Google Search, hit Search, find it on the list - or it might just be on it's own - & click on "Translate This," which it will go to in English, or mostly English...)

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