New Museum at Fordham University

New York's distinguished Fordham University will open the new Walsh Library Museum on December 6, 2007, its first exhibition dedicated to classical antiquities.

As reported in the October 31, 2007 issue of The Ram, Fordham University, a world-renowned Jesuit institution of higher education in New York, will open the Walsh Library Museum on its Rose Hill campus in The Bronx on December 6, 2007. Its first exhibition is devoted to the art of classical antiquity.

Alumnus William D. Walsh, Class of 1951, donated $10 million (US) toward the library's construction. Now its reading room for current periodicals has been transformed into a state-of-the-art museum housing his collection of some 200 Greek, Etruscan and Roman works of art (7th Century B.C.-3rd Century A.D.). The objects to be displayed include rare bowls, exquisite marble busts, decorated vases and a generous selection of terracotta heads retrieved from Etruscan tombs.

The Walsh Library Museum will be open to the university's administrators, faculty and students as well as other visitors. It'll play a vital role in the college's Art History and Classics curricula. Pupils enrolled in the Advanced Placement Art History course at Fordham Preparatory School on the university's campus will also be afforded the opportunity to study the objects on view.

Those enamored with the vast holdings of classical art in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum as well as periodic special exhibitions at midtown Manhattan's Onassis Cultural Center will be wont to see what the new Walsh Library Museum has to offer.