dell'Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica
AIAC NEWS n. 21 (Giugno 1999)
BOSTON - SEAT OF THE XVIth INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE 2003.
The Harvard University Art Museums are pleased to announce that the 16th International Congress of Classical Archaeology will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the year 2003. With its many distinguished universities, museums, laboratories, and libraries, the Cambridge/Boston area of New England is an ideal site for this important congress. Boston boasts more colleges, universities and independent preparatory schools than any other region of the United States. Harvard University alone administers the Fogg Museum of Art, the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Semitic Museum, The Peabody Museum and the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Close by is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Across the river in Boston are Boston University, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the New England Conservatory of Music and the lively and historic waterfront area. Cambridge is also a short ride from other major colleges and universities and collections of Greek and Roman art, such as those at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut, Dartmouth College\rquote s Hood Museum in Hanover, New Hampshire, and Mt. Holyoke, Smith and Wellesley Colleges, and the Worcester Museum of Art, all in western Massachusetts. Side trips to these places or to New York City, which is only four and a half hours by car, will b e easy to arrange. Steeped in Colonial American history and Old World charm, Boston and Cambridge delight visitors with their diverse neighborhoods, scenic beauty, cultural excellence and abundant attractions. One can stroll the Boston Commons, cheer for t he Red Sox baseball team, take a harbor cruise and see whales, visit Salem, home of the Salem Witch Trials or Concord and Lexington where the American Revolution began. A walk along the Freedom Trail in downtown Boston will bring the visitor to such histo ric sites as the Old State House, built in 1713 and the oldest public building in Boston, Faneuil Hall, The Paul Revere House, The Old North Church, the oldest church in Boston, and the U.S.S. Constitution, the frigate known as launched in 1797 and now the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world. Boston and Cambridge offer fine dining, ethnic diversity, and academic excellence. We enthusiastically look forward to welcoming all members of the classical archaeology community in 2003 to de light in our city and join us in learning and sharing new discoveries and research with our colleagues from all over the world.
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http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/ancient/congress2003/index.html
Amy Brauer, The Harvard University Arts Museums