Charles University Collection of Plaster Casts on the Move












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            * Charles University Collection of Plaster Casts on the Move
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            As does a number of other universities around the world, Charles University in Prague poss

            collection of plaster casts depicting the most important creations of the Ancient Greek an
            art. The collection, created mainly in the 19th and in the very beginning of the 20th cent
            today 550 copies of the most significant, as well as some less known, ancient time pieces 

            About 170 plaster casts of statues, busts and famous reliefs from the collection set on mo
            September, after being displayed in the Municipal Museum Ústí nad Labem for 3 years. While
            part of the collection has been exhibited to the public in the Gallery of Ancient Art in H

            almost 50 years now, the destiny of the other, not less numerous portion of the collection
            travails of the mythic Odysseus (Ulysses) to return home.    

            After the ejectment of the casts from the Riding School building of Litomyšl Castle in 201
            of the collection played the leading role in the celebratory reopening of the Municipal Mu
            Labem. It seemed that the compilation had found a stable home once more. Merely 2 years la

            exhibition titled “The Ancient Dream” was terminated again. In the beginning of this autum
            casts of Charles University set on the new pilgrimage, this time to the State Castle Duchc
            exhibition, concerning not only the Ancient art but also its heritage and reflection in th

            Baroque period, should be prepared during the next year.
            A complete photo gallery [ URL "http://ukar.ff.cuni.cz/bohove_opousteji_usti"] from the mo
            cast collection can be found on the websites of the Institute of Classical Archaeology of 

            Arts of CU.