Saturday, January 09, 2010

ROM DSS exhibition a success

A SUCCESS:
The Dead Sea Scrolls Spoke Volumes During their Toronto Engagement

(Art Daily)

TORONTO.- Dead Sea Scrolls: Words That Changed the World is the most successful exhibition displayed at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in the nine years since Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. Over 300,000 visited the exhibition during its Toronto engagement.

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I'm not surprised; this sort of success is the norm for Dead Sea Scrolls exhibitions.

The article has a nice picture of 11Q5, the Psalms scroll.