Tour with Curator: Light from the East

Free with Admission Join Museum Curator, Elliot Mackin, for a special tour of Light from the East: Masterpieces from the Ikonen-Museum Recklinghausen. This exhibition follows the twin branches of Greek and Russian icon painting back in time 500 years from the outbreak of the Russian Revolution in 1917 to the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. On view for the first time in the United States, the icons in this exhibition are rare treasures from the Ikonen-Museum Recklinghausen , the largest and most important museum collection of Orthodox icons in Western Europe.