An art museum in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1999 an anonymous private collector, who had bought the Archimedes Palimpsest at a Christie's auction in October 1998 for two million dollars, deposited the manuscript at the Walters for conservation, multispectral imaging and study, a project the museum led for over a decade.
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Organisation
Institution FoundedThe museum opened to the public in 1934 as the Walters Art Gallery, the year after the Maryland General Assembly chartered the Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, Inc. to receive and administer Henry Walters's 1931 bequest of the collection to the City of Baltimore. 1 Governing BodyAn independent nonprofit board, the Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, Inc., a Maryland educational corporation created by the General Assembly in 1933 after Henry Walters bequeathed the collection to the city in 1931. 2 Public Access Public Access DetailGeneral admission has been free since 2006, when the museum eliminated admission charges to expand public access to the collection. 2 Custody and Display
Relevant HoldingThe Archimedes Palimpsest, on deposit from its anonymous private owner since 1999 1 Connections
Associated With
Source The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest ScientistReviel Netz and William Noel
Contained In
Source The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest ScientistReviel Netz and William Noel
Houses
On deposit from its anonymous private owner since 1999, not owned by the museum outright.
Source The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest ScientistReviel Netz and William Noel
Sources
1. The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist
Reviel Netz and William Noel, Da Capo Press, 2007
2. The Walters Art Museum, Board of Trustees (official website)
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