Middle East times 29 September, 2004 An ancient Petra exhibit in Cincinnati, Ohio unites Jordanian cultural relics with US collections for the first major art collaboration between the nations.
"Petra: Lost City of Stone," which opened at the Cincinnati Art Museum, represents 10 years of planning and $1 million spent to bring together major archaeological artifacts from 100 BC to 600 BC, as well as nineteenth-century paintings and drawings created after Petra was rediscovered in 1812.
The traveling exhibit, a cooperative venture between the Cincinnati museum and New York's American Museum of Natural History, features artwork displayed outside of Jordan for the first time.
The exhibit combines many pieces from Jordan's museums, Cincinnati Art Museum's renowned Petra collection, American Museum of Natural History's artifacts and relics from the Louvre in Paris. The idea for the Petra exhibit began when Queen Noor, stepmother of Jordan's King Abdullah II, visited Cincinnati in 1994, said Glenn Markoe, the show's curator. |