Museum Guide
Our Museum Guide this issue begins with a listing of noteworthy temporary exhibits currently on view around the country. Ranging widely, these exhibits—and the permanent exhibits that follow—focus on different aspects of the art and archaeology of ancient Israel, Mesopotamia, Egypt and elsewhere in the ancient Near East.
Cambridge, Mass.
Points of View: The Holy Land Then and Now
Through November 30
It has been 150 years since the French government offered “free to the world” the photographic process it had purchased from Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre. To mark this anniversary, the Harvard Semitic Museum is mounting two exhibitions focused on the Near East as captured by the pioneers of photography. Points of View features seventy-five 19th-century images by Beato, Beford, Bonfils, Dumas, Frith, Good and others depicting such sites as the pyramids at Giza and the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The Holy Land Then and Now consists of 50 double images of places as recorded in the 19th century and as they appear today.
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