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Both the Legion of Honor and de Young are open to the public. Please read our safety guidelines.

de Young: Selected Works

by Renée Dreyfus

de Young: Selected Works

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Explore the Ancient Art Council: Upcoming Events

PROGRAM

September 9, 2023 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (PDT)

Babylonian Astrology and the History of Science

PROGRAM

December 2, 2023 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (PST)

Rehearsed Reading of ION by Euripides

PROGRAM

October 7, 2023 at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (PDT)

Gladiators at Pompeii: Roman Spectacle in a Small Town

Thank you for helping us acquire our first Egyptian royal portrait—a carved limestone relief of Ptolemy I Soter

See the relief of Ptolemy I Soter

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Ancient Art Council supports Antiquities at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

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Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs

Ramses II, also known as Ramses the Great, was the most celebrated and powerful pharaoh of the New Kingdom—Egypt’s golden age. Believed to be a god on Earth, he ruled for 67 years as part of the 19th Dynasty, erecting enormous temples, obelisks, and statues and expanding Egypt’s empire.

August 20, 2022 - February 13, 2023

EXHIBITION

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