Spring, 1999
THE small crystal ball in the Museum’s collection (see Issue 5 of Sphæra) is to be loaned to a special exhibition in Venice, linked to a conference on ‘I Cristalli e le Gemme’ at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti.
The crystal ball can travel to Venice, where it will be on display at the Institute from the 28th April to the 24th May with its credentials intact. There it will join material from such celebrated collections as the Tresoro di San Marco, Venice, and the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence. It will be the first time the Institute has borrowed material from a museum in the United Kingdom. |