The Museum of Classical Archeology is a Cambridge museum run by the University of Cambridge, England. The museum has been housed, since 1983, in a purpose-built gallery on the first floor of the Faculty of Classics on the Sidgwick campus within the same University.
The Museum of Classical Archeology has one of the very few collections still existing in the world of plaster casts of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture, for a total of four hundred and fifty pieces. The collection contains several hundred casts, some of the most famous surviving ancient Greek and Roman sculptures such as those of Laocoon and his sons, the Barberini Faun and Auriga of Delphi and the Farnese Hercules.
The highlight of the museum is certainly the Peplos Kore: a plaster cast depicting an ancient Greek statue of a young woman that was set up on the Acropolis of Athens, around 530 BC.
The Museum of Classical Archeology also houses a large collection of fragments and epigraphs, altogether about 1500 pieces.
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