b'A display case in the reinstalled Ancient World gallery on the second floorat the heart of the reinstallation of the Ancient Worlda strategic process that takes place every five or so gallery, led by Curator of Painting and Sculptureyears that calls on the institution to understand why Danielle Carrabino and Jane Chace Carroll Curator ofand what it collects, and establish goals for develop-Asian Art Yao Wu and supported by student researching that collection. From the start, SCMA has acquired assistant Xiaofei Sophie Lei 20. Like many museumsartworks in direct response to whats being studied of our vintage, SCMAs ancient tends to privilegeand taught at Smith College; as the curriculum has Egypt, Greece and Rome, but the reality is that manyevolved over time, so too has the collection. The cultures have ancient histories and we, in fact, havenew plan represents the extraordinary range and many objects representing those histories in ourexpertise of the museums expanded curatorial staff, collection. In the reframing weve surfaced the notion that ancient isnt a time period in and of itselfand the timeline varies depending on whose definition of ancient is being considered. So now in addition to the beautiful Greek vases, the gallery features ancient Korean ceramics, pre-Columbian figures, Chinese bronzes and other works that challenge us to think about how we categorize artwork and what that sug-gests about our values and assumptions. You canread more about this reinstallation on page 34.the making of a museumAnother important undertaking this year wasthe creation of a new collecting plan for the museumSCMA Night at Your Museum9'