Design for Eternity: Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas

June 28 - September 18, 2016 - This exhibition, the first of its kind in the United States, sheds light on the role of these objects in mediating relationships between the living, the dead, and the divine. It also provides a rare look at ancient American architecture, much of which did not survive to the present day. Some thirty remarkable loans from museums in the United States and Peru join works from the Metropolitan Museum's permanent collection, which is particularly rich in this material.