The Semitic Museum, whose “focus is the Near East. Most of its 40,000-odd objects were obtained during museum-sponsored excavations in Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Tunisia, and Syria”, has opened a new exhibition on the creation of the museum itself by founder David Gordon Lyon in 1889. Titled “From the Nile to the Euphrates: Creating The Harvard Semitic Museum,” the show takes up a packed 2nd floor room in the museum, and all gallery and display lighting was designed and aimed by Anna Baranczak.

For more on the exhibit, check out Boston Globe’s article, the Harvard Gazette, and of course the museum’s very own website.