INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY

Model moon horse. How a fragment of the Parthenon

became the most famous horse head of antiquity

Curator-guided tour with Prof. Dr. Jens-Arne Dickmann

At the center of the exhibition is a single object: the famous horse's head from the east pediment

of the Parthenon temple - and its astonishing career in plaster casts, drawings, prints, photographs and new digital media,

prints, photographs and new digital media. The exhibition approaches

the exhibits from six perspectives and asks how an originally marginal pediment sculpture

how an originally marginal pediment sculpture became perhaps the most famous depiction of a horse in antiquity.

could become.