Ancient & Global Cultures

Learn how three powerful pharaohs used art and image-making to build their public power.

See how jewelry has communicated status, culture, and identity across 4,000 years.

How do people use stories, images, and symbols to make sense of life, death, and the universe — and what can ancient objects tell us about those beliefs today?

Gallery LG33 is not one civilization — it is five thousand years of Andean cultures, each with a distinct visual language.

Across cultures and centuries, artists have used gardens to say something about power, beauty, grief, identity, and our relationship with the natural world.