University of Illinois (Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois)

Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) will reinstall its collection of ancient Andean art. Primary collaborators include colleagues at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the College of Education at UIUC, the Field Museum in Chicago, and the Anthropology Department at the University of Illinois Chicago. This reinstallation will transform the ancient Andean gallery into an innovative teaching and research tool that better serves their core constituents and exposes audiences to the historical depth, cultural richness, and contemporary relevance of ancient Andean civilizations. It also will demonstrate the crucial role that the visual arts play in bringing the distant past to bear on the present.