Wellesley College (Davis Museum and Cultural Center)

The Davis Museum at Wellesley College will carry out three initiatives to support the creation of a gallery for the museum's Greco-Roman antiquities. The museum will conserve 51 objects, relocate and conserve its 5th-century Antioch mosaic, and construct casework to house subcollections of its antiquities holdings. Currently 85 percent of the museum's Greco-Roman objects are in storage. Those on view are primarily in the study gallery, which rotates objects to suit coursework by semester; only five objects are on view in the permanent collections galleries. The new permanent gallery dedicated to the art of Ancient Greece and Rome would more than double the present number of Greco-Roman objects on public display. This project will benefit the Davis museum's key constituencies: Wellesley College students, faculty, scholars of Greco-Roman antiquity, and general museum visitors. All groups will benefit from greater access to the museum's rich holdings in Greco-Roman antiquities.