Renée Dreyfus (Ph.D. '01): A Seasoned Museum Curator Tells Ancient Stories in New Ways

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Renée Dreyfus, Distinguished Curator and Curator in Charge of Ancient Art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and curator of "Last Supper in Pompeii: From the Table to the Grave" at the Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco  |  Credit: Photography by Gary Sexton. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

January 11, 2023
Emily Wilson, Next Avenue

"It's hard to look at Egyptian art and not want to know more, and as I got older, I had this curiosity about how did we get to where we are today?" says Renée Dreyfus. "I always wanted to know that history of ideas."

Dreyfus, who completed a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies in 2001, is Curator of Antiquities at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, which includes the de Young and the Legion of Honor.

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