Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Precious Legacy

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'''Precious Legacy''' was a traveling exhibition of Jewish art and ritual objects gathered by Nazi Germany for a projected ''Museum of the Extinct Race'' and now owned and preserved by the [[Jewish Museum in Prague]].


==History==
Beginning in 1983 the exhibition traveled across the United States and Canada, shown at [[New York]]'s [[Jewish Museum (Manhattan)|Jewish Museum]] the [[Smithsonian]] in Washington, D.C., the [[San Diego Museum of Art]], Miami's [[Bass Museum]], museums in Hartford, Detroit and New Orleans, the [[Montreal Museum of Fine Arts]], the [[Glenbow Museum]] in Calgary, Toronto's [[Royal Ontario Museum]].<ref name="GruberLLegacy">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref name="AlatonSpirit">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref name="DamskerMagnitude"/>

The tour was funded with a large gift form [[Phillip Morris USA]].<ref name="DamskerMagnitude"/>

The exhibition, with 110,000 visitors in seven weeks, broke the Smithsonian record for visitors to a special exhibit.<ref name="DamskerMagnitude">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> 93,000 attended at the [[Bass Museum]] in Miami.<ref name="DamskerMagnitude"/>

A brouhaha erupted in [[Los Angeles]] when the public learned that that [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]], (LACMA), had turned the exhibit down and that it would go to the then far smaller city of [[San Diego]] instead.<ref name="DamskerMagnitude"/>

[[Herman Berlinski]] was commissioned to create ''Ets Chayim'' (The Tree of Life), for the opening of ''Precious Legacy''at the Smithsonian.<ref name="LevyWorks">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>

==References==


[[Category:Art exhibitions in Canada]]
[[Category:Art exhibitions in the Czech Republic]]
[[Category:Smithsonian Institution exhibitions]]


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