Spotlight Tour: Making Time, with Sophia Scott ’25
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Sophia Scott will explore how historical objects embody and enforce conceptions of time, with examples from ancient Egypt to 19th-century Paris.
Sign-up Information
Ages: Adults.
Wheelchair accessible.
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No application or registration needed.
Cost
This Event is free!
Please check in with museum staff at the Visitor Services desk in the Calderwood Courtyard to request to join the tour. Tours are limited to 18 people and are available on a first-come, first-served basis; no registration is required.
Location
- In-person only.
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States
Neighborhood 9
Dates and Times
Saturday, September 7, 2PM – 2:50PM
Additional information
Looking closely at three works, the tour starts with an ancient Egyptian bronze, Horus falcon, which holds a mummified bird skeleton from more than 2,500 years ago. Moving chronologically, it continues on to Otto van Meurs’s richly symbolic longcase musical clock (Dutch, c. 1750–75), which keeps accurate time to this day. The tour concludes with The Gare Saint-Lazare: Arrival of a Train (1877), a painting by Claude Monet made at a time when long-distance train travel prompted standardization across time zones.
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Last updated August 27, 2024.
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