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Round The Museum of Art the World has over 23,000 works of art from around the world a bite-sized tour and throughout time, spanning 5,000 years of human creativity. It’s a big museum, so start your visit with this bite-sized tour.

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Tuesday–Sunday 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Thursday 11:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m. Closed Mondays

PROMOTING PARTICIPATION AND DMA.org ENGAGEMENT WITH ART! Earn the Round the World badge 1717 N Harwood St Enter the single word codes at any DMA Dallas Texas 75201 by answering the DMA Friends code Friends kiosk or text individual codes to Free General Admission and DMA Friends made possible with generous support from The Meadows Foundation and The Pollock Foundation. The Dallas Museum questions and successfully entering 214-390-9693, to earn points that can be of Art is supported, in part, by the generosity of DMA Members and donors, the citizens of Dallas through the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, and the the code for each tour stop. redeemed for rewards! Texas Commission on the Arts. Calling all and LEVEL FOUR LEVEL TWO (in Ancient American Art) (in nook, near Blue Elevators) fans! Make cylindrical vessel albrecht dürer with ballgame Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg your way ’round the world with scene 1519 Guatemala is certainly a A.D. 682–701 this self-guided tour of art from multifaceted Mav, with his Long before the invention one-legged shots, across the continents. Make a of basketball, the ancient ability to run the trail, and Maya played a ballgame in an outdoor court. The left-handed . Another to the Red Elevators ball was probably about the size of a basketball, multifaceted great from but made out of rubber, more solid, and much Germany was Albrecht Dürer, who was not only and start this tour in the Ancient heavier. This artist took artistic license because a pioneer of printmaking but also a significant the ball painted on this vessel is really big! Some contributor to 16th–century science. His map- American Art galleries on Level 4. Maya ball courts had vertical hoops through making and studies in geometry and anatomy were which players may have tried to drive the ball. innovative and influential in the field. Sound familiar? But unlike basketball players, the Maya moved the ball with their legs and hips. DMA Friends code= This cardinal’s title “stats” are side by side with what object, which also reinforces DMA Friends code= Instead of team jerseys, the his highly ranked position? Maya wore what items to distinguish the players?

LEVEL FOUR LEVEL THREE SCULPTURE (in Form/Unformed) (near Blue Elevators) GARDEN louise campbell lacquered wood Level 1 for zanotta saddle zaha hadid Veryround chair, 2006 Japan, 17th century Bench, designed 2003, Ever wonder what a Mavs mascot Champ executed 2006 basketball sees before dreams of wearing this Dribble out to the Sculpture Garden for an artwork it swooshes through a net? Two layers of gorgeous saddle, which would have belonged to that could appear courtside at a Mavs game. overlapping circles—the outer layer 20% larger a samurai. For one thousand years (until the late Architect and urban designer Zaha Hadid has than the inner layer—create the net-like design 18th century), the samurai dominated Japanese designed everything from fire stations and ski of this chair. With no legs or arms, the Veryround warfare. The samurai’s most powerful weapon jumps to iconic buildings, like the London Aquatics chair rocks back and forth, creating intricate was not his daish¯o—a pair of swords, one long Centre, used for the 2012 Summer . shadows as it moves. How many of the 240 and one short—but his horse! Only samurai rode Her designs often twist and flow, giving familiar circles that make up this chair can you count? horses during battle. objects a fresh look. What does the shape of this bench look like to you? DMA Friends code= This simple and very round DMA Friends code= The elegant decor on this chair is constructed from what metal also used saddle’s surface includes sprinkled gold as part DMA Friends code= What is the last name of the to create basketball rims? of which Japanese lacquer technique? artist who created a nearby wooden and bronze artwork that could also be used to bench players?