The Ashmolean Museum is full of art from the ancient world. The collection started in the XVII century, making it one of the oldest public museums in the UK. I love to wander its rooms filled with statues, ceramics, artifacts, fragments from a distant past. I can’t help but thinking to the person who carved, or painted, or molded the pieces of art; the one who commissioned it or bought it; the one who got it as a gift. I imagine the time the objects were in use, the statues on display, the paintings decorating important rooms. And then I think about the time they spent buried beneath rubble, covered by dirt or vegetation, forgotten, unappreciated, ignored. But then they were found, transported in a completely different world, in a different time, among different people. And they were appreciated again, recognized and admired. Not a bad ending…
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