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'THE WORLD OF 1607' Special Exhibition
Jamestown Settlement, Williamsburg, Virginia
April 27, 2007 – April 9, 2008
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A special exhibition at Jamestown Settlement places America’s first permanent English colony in a global context, portraying a larger world of discovery, strife, expansion, innovation, artistic expression and cultural exchange.
Topics in the third cycle, running November 2007 through January 2008, will explore the parallel development of the cities of Edo (Tokyo) and Paris in the early 17th century, scientific measurement, the transmission of knowledge, literature promoting colonization, the beginnings of museums as cabinets of curiosity, and the impact of theater on British identity.
Featured artifacts include a Japanese tea cabinet from the 17th-century Royal Danish Kunstkammer, courtesy of the National Museum of Denmark; North American garters and neck ornament from the Canterbury Cathedral; and a 17th- or 18th-century copy of the Chandos portrait, one of the most famous of portraits that may depict William Shakespeare, from the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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