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Featuring 140 objects, the exhibition Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico brings to the De Young Museum monuments that have never been seen by American audiences.  Watch some of those pieces and listen the curator Kathleen Berrin talk about the America’s oldest civilization.

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Symposium: Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 19, 2011 de Young Museum • 55 Hagiwara Tea Drive in Golden Gate Park Symposium: “Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico” 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. in the Koret Auditorium Tickets are $8/general, $5/members/students. A series of speakers reveal new discoveries about the Olmec civilization. Morning session: 10:00–11:45 a.m. Welcome and Introduction Kathleen […]

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Pre-opening night of Olmec exhibition at de Young

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2011 • 6:00p.m. -8:45 p.m. de Young Museum • 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive in Golden Gate Park Pre-opening Night of Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico Members only night for Olmec exhibition. Programs are free and open to the public. Welcome and acknowledgement of the ancestral spirits of the Olmec people […]