
Current exhibition
Treasures of
The Al Thani Collection
The opening gallery of the museum space at the Hôtel de la Marine displays seven masterpieces from The Al Thani Collection.
Chosen for their historical and aesthetic significance, these works illustrate the breadth and quality of the Collection and range from Oriental, pre-Hellenic and Egyptian antiquities to Mayan art, via Han China and Mughal India. Diverse in purpose, form and material, each piece nevertheless shares a common scale and sensibility and represents a high point of human creative endeavour across civilisations.
(Ca’ d’Oro: Masterpieces of the Renaissance in Venice, the third in the series of biannual temporary exhibitions, is currently on view in three of the four rooms dedicated to The Al Thani Collection at the Hôtel de la Marine. This includes two rooms normally reserved for showing works from the Collection).
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Exhibition highlights
Stargazer
Western Asia Minor, possibly Anatolia; Chalcolithic,
Marble, pigment
H. 20cm; W. 8.3cm; D 7.1cm
Mask pendant
Mexico, or northern Central America; Maya, AD 200–600
Wood, jade, resin, shell, mother-of-pearl, spondylus shell, obsidian, red pigment
H. 12cm; W. 8.4cm; D. 6.8cm
Head of a royal figure
Egypt; New Kingdom, 1475–1292 BC
Red jasper
H. 9.6cm; W. 6.1cm; D. 7.5cm
Bear
China; Western Han Dynasty, 206 BC–AD 25
Gilt bronze
H. 7.6cm; W. 7.8cm; D. 5.5cm