Bright gallery with white pedestals showcasing a variety of stone statues and objects in glass cases.
Special Installation

Arts of the Ancient Americas

Opening title card of the Ancient Americas Animated Map

The Arts of the Ancient Americas Map | Michael C. Rockefeller Wing

A new state-of-the-art digital map visualizes the complex and layered stories of the places, histories, and cultures of the Ancient Americas.

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Gilded copper owl secured to a silvered copper disk
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See a virtual reconstruction of this remarkable Moche shield.
May 28
Lintel relief with figure of a man outlined in gold
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Take a closer look at the details of a colorful relief panel from La Pasadita.
May 28
Opening title card of the Ancient Americas Animated Map
A new state-of-the-art digital map visualizes the complex and layered stories of the places, histories, and cultures of the Ancient Americas.
May 23
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Double Crocodile Pendant, Gold, shell, Cocle (Macaracas)
The earliest evidence of metallurgy found in the Isthmus of Panama can be dated between the second and third centuries CE.
May 27
A flying panel metate (tablelike object of stone) with five felines worked into the legs on the metate's underside
Ancient artists of Costa Rica demonstrated great skill in creating stone works such as metates, zoomorphic and anthropomorphic figures, and spheres.
May 21
Bare-chested female ceramic figure wearing a multistrand necklace with a sizable pendant and a decorated head cover.
Artistic representations of power emerged from multiple cultural traditions in coastal Ecuador during the period between 300 BCE and 600 CE.
May 7
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