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On Loan
A Selection of Objects from the Collection Currently on Display

On Loan

Current
  • Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine Long Term Loan

    Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine

    Long Term Loan Since 2019 the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) has been the recipient of a significant long term loan of objects from the Wyvern Collection. The arrival of the Wyvern Collection loan has presented an opprtunity for the Bowdoin College faculty to come together with the curatorial staff of the... Read more
  • The MET Cloisters New York

    The MET Cloisters New York

    Long Term Loan The MET Cloisters is currently home to five medieval objects from the Wyvern Collection: Three late 12th century Limoges enamelled plauqes from the Orense altar frontal or retable, a pair of late 12th century Limoges enamelled candlesticks, and an early 13th century wooden casket painted with depictions of the Prise... Read more
  • House of European History, Brussels

    House of European History, Brussels

    Fake for Real: A History of Forgery and Falsification, Touring Exhibition 2 Feb 2024 - 30 Nov 2026 Fake For Real - Touring Exhibition Teloglion Fine Arts Foundation, Thessaloniki, Greece; National Ethnographic Museum, Sofia, Bulgaria; Open Society Archive, Budapest, Hungary; Museum of the Second World War, Gdansk, Poland; Regional Museum Skåne, Kristianstad, Sweden. 'The Ancient Greeks, the myth goes, used a wooden horse to deceive their enemies and... Read more
Forthcoming
  • Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio Cursed! The Power of Magic in the Ancient World

    Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio

    Cursed! The Power of Magic in the Ancient World 21 Mar - 5 Jul 2026 Cursed! The Power of Magic in the Ancient World 21 March - 5 July 2026 'For millennia, people across Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome turned to magic for protection, for healing, to curse their enemies, and to seek favor from powers beyond the human realm. Ancient magic was woven into... Read more
  • Sainsbury Centre, Norwich Living by the Rule: Contemporary meets Medieval

    Sainsbury Centre, Norwich

    Living by the Rule: Contemporary meets Medieval 16 May - 4 Oct 2026 Living by the Rule: Contemporary meets Medieval 16 May - 4 October 2026 'Living by the Rule: Contemporary meets Medieval reflects on the ‘rules’ that we live by today. Exploring the idea of routine and regulation, the exhibition vividly presents the richness and complexity of the dialogue between medieval experiments... Read more
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