Explore the exhibition with a family gallery guide and come to Jamestown Settlement to experience "The World of 1607." Ninety objects from museum and private collections in Denmark, Poland, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States are exhibited. Among the finely crafted decorative and ceremonial objects, books, maps, scientific instruments, and military and equestrian accouterments are an elaborately carved 16th-century African ivory saltcellar from the National Museum of Denmark; a 17th-century Ottoman musket from the collection of Richard Wagner, Jr.; a 16th-century Russian painting, “Icon of the Mother of God of Yaroslavl,” from the State Historical Museum in Moscow; and a portrait of Emperor Mikhail Feodorovich, the first Romanov tsar, from The State Historical and Cultural Museum-Preserve, “The Moscow Kremlin.”
Listen to audio "minutes" exploring topics from the fourth cycle of "The World of 1607."
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