EXHIBITIONS

The galleries are coming together

Exhibitions will be announced as they’re finalized. Here is the kind of experience they’re built around.

Two collections,
four thousand years

The permanent collection consists of the lifelong collections of Ryan Matthew Cohn and Richad harris.

Together, they span 2000 BC to the present day, so that a single visit can move from an ancient burial object to a piece finished this year.

2000 BC

Today

Traditions in the collection

A first look at the themes visitors will meet. Final galleries to be announced.

Engraving after Giorgio Ghisi of skeletons rising from open coffins and tombs

Dance of Death

Prints and images where death leads pope, king and peasant in the same dance.

Black and white photograph of a human skull resting on a wooden surface, framed in black

Memento Mori

Objects made to be kept close, reminding their owners that life is brief.

A vintage human skeleton model with fabric draped over its head, standing next to framed artwork and other skulls in a room decorated with various skull and portrait pictures.

Day of the Dead

Remembrance and celebration from the Día de los Muertos tradition.

A wooden cabinet filled with various curiosities and artifacts, framed by two smaller shelves with miniature objects and figurines, behind a vintage wooden chair with a round backrest, all in a room with yellow walls.

Kunstkammer

The cabinet of curiosities, where art, science and the natural world shared one room.

How it’s told

Some galleries hold a single object, told in the collector’s own words. Others hold dozens, arranged so a pattern across centuries becomes visible all at once.

Oil painting of two human skulls against a dark background in an arched wooden frame
An old vintage anatomical illustration showing three human figures with detailed skeletal structures, one in the center with half of the body flesh and the others showing skeletons, with handwritten notes in Spanish at the top.
A detailed engraving of a cherub-like child with curly hair, sitting on a large skull, surrounded by clouds and smoky elements, with a landscape in the background.
A painting of a skeleton wearing a crown, sitting in a dark space, surrounded by ornate decorations and holding a staff. There is a Latin inscription on a ribbon above the skeleton that says 'GLORIA MEA ET ABSTULIT CONCUPAM'.
Drawing by Anton Derkzen van Angeren of two human skulls resting on a book
Drawing of a human skull on graph paper.
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