The Joukowsky Institute's Home
The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World is presently located at 70 Waterman Street, an attractive nineteenth-century house that has recently been repainted and refurbished, both internally and externally. The Joukowsky Institute contains faculty and administrative offices, a seminar room, and a non-circulating library of relevant books and journals. A small study collection of artifacts (including pottery, metalwork and figurines) and an impressive numismatic collection are also housed in secure storage here; these are available for student teaching and research. Graduate students in the Joukowsky Institute are provided with study space, as well as dedicated computer rooms, including scanning facilities. A fieldwork laboratory has additional computer facilities and space for analysis and study. Finally, a comfortable common room is available for use by the entire Institute community.
Plans are underway to move the Joukowsky Institute's home, in the near future, to Rhode Island Hall, situated at the southwest corner of the main quadrangle of the Brown campus. Rhode Island Hall (so-called since much of its funding came from public subscriptions by Rhode Islanders) was built in 1840 to accommodate science teaching on the campus. A complete renovation of the building is planned, in preparation for its occupancy by the Joukowsky Institute.
