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Fitchburg Art Museum Director Peter Timms presents his last gallery talk about his favorite hidden treasures from the Museum’s collection  
 
Gallery Talk on Sunday, October 21, 1:00-2:30 p.m. Free with Museum Admission
 
FITCHBURG, MA—Museum Director Peter Timm’s will offer his penultimate public utterance with heartfelt stories, thoughts, and insights into his favorite objects, many drawn from the Museum’s storerooms and seldom shown. Ranging from 19^thcentury furniture from Museum founder Eleanor Norcross’ Paris apartment, to paintings by modern masters Mark Toby and Charles Sheeler, the show also includes artists with whom the visitor may be less familiar such as Icelandic painter, Mattias Dottir, and Spanish artist Vincente Estebon. There is also a sampling of miniature paintings, a 17^thcentury Dutch Landscape, 16^thcentury Italian drawings, photographs and other treasures that round out this eclectic exhibition. 
 
For nearly 40 years, Museum Director Peter Timm’s has provided the vision of the Fitchburg Art Museum, North Central Massachusetts’ oldest and most treasured cultural institutions. 
Under Peter’s leadership, the permanent collection grew from one thousand to over three thousand artworks. He also expanded the museum from a single building of three galleries to a block-long, architecturally significant three buildingcomplex with over12 galleries. 
 
“Museums are treasures in every sense. They are passports to exotic places and remote ages, to otherswho, like us, have lived, coped, wondered and dreamed. Children should experience their enchantment so that as adults they can live richly. Think of them as an internet of time.”
–Peter Timms