[MSN] SAFE announces two new tours at the Met

[Museum Security Network Mailing list]

• Saturday September 29 at noon with Dr. Senta German in the New  
Greek and Roman Galleries

• Friday October 26 at 5:30 with Dr. Oscar White Muscarella in the  
Ancient Near Eastern Galleries

SAFE Tours provide an “insider's look” at museum collection and focus  
on artworks and artifacts that have dubious provenance or are  
presumed to be illicit. Also highlighted are objects that have been  
excavated properly. The information we are able to gather from these  
artifacts is contrasted with the lack of information from items  
without provenance, or history of origin.

Dr. Senta German, whose fields of specialty are the Greek Bronze and  
Iron Ages, received her PhD from Columbia University. She has over 10  
years of excavation experience in Greece, Israel, the American East  
Coast and Alaska. She recently authored Performance, Power and the  
Art of the Aegean Bronze Age which was published in 2005. This tour  
of Hellenistic, Etruscan, and Roman objects in the newly  
reconstructed and reinstalled galleries will include the "centerpiece  
of the new installation"—the Leon Levy and Shelby White Court, Click  
http://www.savingantiquities.org/whatwedosafetoursGerman.php to  
register.

Dr. Oscar White Muscarella  is a specialist in the art and  
archaeology of the ancient Near East, he has been on staff of the  
Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1964. He is also the author of "The  
Lie Became Great: The Forgery of Near Eastern Cultures." He will lead  
a group through the Ancient Near Eastern Galleries and discuss how  
the objects got there. Click http://www.savingantiquities.org/ 
whatwedosafetoursMuscarella.php to register.

Fee: $40/person or $10/student with valid ID, including group  
admission to the museum. Space is limited. To make your reservation  
or to learn more about SAFE Tours, visit our website at: http:// 
www.savingantiquities.org/tours.php  or email  
tours at savingantiquities.org.

SAFE/Saving Antiquities for Everyone (www.savingantiquities.org)  
creates educational programs and media campaigns to raise public  
awareness about the importance of preserving cultural heritage  
worldwide. SAFE is a coalition of professionals in communications,  
media, and advertising working alongside experts in the academic,  
legal and law enforcement communities. SAFE is a non-profit  
organization and has no political affiliations.



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