One of the largest Greek and Roman collections in the Southeast hides in plain sight on Tampa’s Riverwalk. The Tampa Museum of Art’s antiquities galleries span 3,000 years — black-figure and red-figure vases, marble portraits, gold jewelry, and the celebrated Joseph Veach Noble Collection that anchors it all.
The museum’s ongoing presentation of ancient Egypt and the classical world (including its landmark exhibition of Egyptian antiquities) has made these galleries a school-trip rite and a scholar’s stop alike. New rotations keep familiar gods in fresh company.
The juxtaposition is the thrill: step from a 2,400-year-old Athenian vase to a contemporary photography gallery in thirty paces.
Antiquity, spotlit on the Hillsborough. Tampa’s oldest art is also its coolest quiet room.
