Exhibitions

Touch of the ancient times

02.12.2005 - 01.02.2006

Lokacija: The Typhlological Museum in cooperation with the Louvre Museum and the Archaeological Museum Zagreb Moulds of sculptures from the Louvre Museum and the Archaeological Museum Zagreb

Autor: Genevieve Bresc-Bautier, Cyrille Gouyette, Željka Sušic, Morana Vouk, Davor Šiftar

“…This travelling exhibition endeavours to expand and round out one’s recollections of their fascination with antiquity uniting the collections of various museums. The uniqueness of the Zagreb exhibition is in the alliance of the Typhlological and Archaeology Museums…”

“…The exhibition has five parts: artists interpreting antiquity, the ways of its expansion (via engraving and mechanical reproduction), the interest of rulers in sculpture from ancient times, including its imaginative interpretations. The exhibition is completed with pieces from the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb and the moulds function as pedagogical aids in promoting knowledge and inviting us to come and touch the originals from the Museum collection...”

Genevieve Bresc-Bautier
Cyrille Gouyette

“…The exhibition realizes the conceptually placed museum guidelines, departing from the classical static set-up, and announces a new museological and communicational future of the Typhlological Museum…”

Željka Sušić

“…The ambition of this exhibition was to respect the existing standards but also the –Strategy guidelines in order to enable the target groups to experience history and art in an accessible manner to them, without barriers…”

dr. sc. Morana Vouk