Objects in the 2013 British Museum exhibition of Ice Age art

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The exhibition is - "Ice Age art: arrival of the modern mind" BM page archive copy at the Wayback Machine. It will run from 7 February – 26 May 2013. This piece in The Observer gives a good preview. We have been given the list of BM objects that will be included, and expect the full list of loan objects, mostly from European museums, shortly, once this is finalized. In the meantime this PDF of foreign loans is on the BM website archive copy at the Wayback Machine. There are 31 BM objects in the exhibition, of which we have Commons photos, mostly from the 2011 day at Franks House (below) of 18, and articles on 7. Any additions are most welcome. All have the key information, and sometimes more, on the BM collections database. The Commons photos are most easily found at the Commons page: Objects in Sieveking, Ann "A catalogue of .Palaeolithic art in the British Museum", which uses the same BM Sieveking "Palart" catalogue references as the BM database.

Loans from abroad: see 34 page PDF listing with images here archive copy at the Wayback Machine. Mostly from Russia, Germany, and France. Includes key pieces from en:Hohle Fels (including the en:Hohle Fels Flute, perhaps the oldest known musical instrument) and other sites, the en:Venus of Lespugue from France, this (article in Spanish) and this piece. According to the Observer (above), these star pieces are also coming: en:Lion man of the Hohlenstein Stadel from Ulm, en:Venus of Dolní Věstonice.

Photos wanted[edit]

There are a number of items it would be great to have photos of before they are taken off display, at the institutions listed below. The items especially needed can be seen in very poor & copyrighted photos on the BM PDF, with the page numbers below, which should probably be printed out to ensure identification (of course other photos very welcome):

Russia: St Petersberg and Zaraysk
- Page 1: Kremlin Museum at en:Zaraysk, Russia
- 2-5: State Hermitage Museum, St Petersberg
- 5-10:en:Kunstkamera - Peter the Great Museum for Anthropology and Ethnology in St Petersberg
Germany: Weimar, Stuttgart, Tübingen, Konstanz
- 11-12: en:Museum für Ur- und Frühgeschichte Thüringens in en:Weimar
- 15-16: Archaeological museum in Konstanz
- 16-17: en:Landesmuseum Württemberg in Stuttgart
- 17-19 Schloss Hohentübingen Museum in Tübingen
France: Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Paris
- 20-27 Musée d'Archéologie nationale, Saint-Germain-en-Laye
- 19-20 en:Muséum national d'histoire naturelle ("Musée de l'Homme" section), Paris
- 13-15: Centre Pompidou, Paris - all modern, so copyrght problems

Czech Republic: Brno
- 28-34 Moravian Museum, Anthropos Institute, Brno
- 27-28 Institute of Archaeology, Brno

Please add any photos uploaded to Commons to this page.

Various[edit]

Paris:en:Venus de Lespugue (replica shown) - articles in 14 languages
Brno:Category:Věstonická venuše, or en:Venus of Dolní Věstonice +17 other languages
Brno, Replica of en:Venus of Petřkovické + 6 other languages
Brno: Dolni-Vestonice stylized figurine
Tubingen
Tubingen
en:Lion man of the Hohlenstein Stadel - 13 languages

Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye[edit]

and detail

British Museum[edit]

The 3 digit reference numbers are the catalogue numbers in Sieveking, Ann. A catalogue of Palaeolithic art in the British Museum, London, British Museum Publications, 1987. ISBN 071411376X. The same number, in the form "Palart.611" etc can be used to search the British Museum collection database from this page archive copy at the Wayback Machine.