Rhode Island Museum: New Look. Old Favorites

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RISD Museum gallery New Look Old Favorites, Asian Buddha.

RHODE ISLAND---The RISD Museum welcomes visitors to an entire floor of newly renovated galleries for ancient Egyptian art, Asian art, and costume and textiles. The opening of these revitalized galleries marks the completion of the seven-year Radeke Restoration Project, which has transformed the Museum’s central Eliza G. Radeke Building to better feature an internationally acclaimed collection of art and design. Fresh installations of ancient Egyptian and Asian art include two prominent visitor favorites: the mummy and coffin of the Egyptian priest Nesmin (ca. 250 BCE) and the monumental Japanese Dainichi Nyorai Buddha (ca. 1150-1200).