The sculptures and inscriptions on display here are part of the largest surviving portion of the first major collection of classical antiquities in Britain, all collected in the early 17th century by the first great English art collector, Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel.
Internationally renowned archaeological collections from Prehistoric Europe, the Ancient Near East, Ancient Egypt and Sudan, Minoan Aegean, Mycenaean and Classical Greece, Ancient Cyprus, the Roman world, Medieval and later Europe, as well as the museum's Founding Collection and historic archives.
