About the Wilcox |  |
Professor A.M. Wilcox, head of
the Greek and Latin
departments at
the University of Kansas and
professor of Greek from 1865 to 1915, established the classical museum in
1886 for the enrichment
of Kansans and of the students at KU.
Until 1965, the Wilcox collection was housed in the Department of Classics
in Old Fraser Hall.
When Old Fraser was
closed in 1965 for demolition
and rebuilding, the Wilcox casts and antiquities were stored at various
locations, on
and off campus, and suffered neglect and damage.
In 1982 many of the casts
were taken
out of storage and restored (by Ahmad-Raee and Dennis Duermeier) in
preparation for
their installation in the present facility (Lippicott Hall) in
1988.
The main gallery is
named for Mary Amelia Grant,
Emerta associate professor of Classics and longtime curator and
benefactress of the
collection. Recent curators include Elizabeth C. Banks (to 2001) and Paul
Rehak (2001-2004), and John Younger (2004 to present).
The Wilcox Classical Museum supports and adheres to
the
April 1972
UNESCO
Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and
Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of
Cultural Property,
and supports the December 1973 resolution of
the Archaeological Institute of America: the
Wilcox Museum will refuse to acquire any "purchase, gift, or
bequest [of] cultural property exported subsequent to December
30, 1973, in violation of the laws obtaining in the countries of
origin."
The Wilcox Classical Collection
includes plaster
casts and actual
Greek
and Roman antiquities on display and more antiquities in a study
collection.
For more information contact:
Wilcox Acquisitions Policy
Bronze furniture attachment in
the shape of a Medusa head, Italy? (1st c. AD)
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