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This 5 page paper examines three of the works of art in the Ancient Near East Room of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and argues that the curator’s purpose in the exhibit is to transport visitors back in time to the ancient near and Middle East. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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and discusses three works on display; it also evaluates the display visually and how the setting itself enhances or detracts from the curators purpose. Discussion It must be said at
the outset that no amount of research turned up a formal paper with a title such as "Curators Thesis for the Ancient Near East Room of the Metropolitan Museum of
Art." (Were not that lucky.) But we can infer what that thesis is from the information provided by the Museum, and by examining the room with some care. We begin
with the Museums Mission Statement, which is to establish a museum in New York City for the purpose of "encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts, and the
application of arts to manufacture and practical life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and, to that end, of furnishing popular instruction" (Mission statement, 2000). That statement was
written in 1870 when the Museum was founded, and still guides it today (Mission statement, 2000). The Museum has a permanent collection, but it also has "special exhibitions" (The
permanent collection, special exhibitions, and collection database, 2008 - hereafter The permanent collection, 2008). The "permanent collection" is the term given to the holdings of a museum; the works that
the museum owns and takes care of (The permanent collection, 2008). The Metropolitan owns more than two million works of art and these objects are "cared for, studied and exhibited
by specialized curatorial departments" (The permanent collection, 2008). One of these departments is the Ancient Near East. Curatorial departments care for the objects under their control, study them, and make
them "accessible to qualified researchers. They are also responsible for organizing and mounting special exhibitions in their areas of concentration" (The permanent collection, 2008). In the Ancient Near East Room
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