Artists such as Joan Mitchell, Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Elaine de Kooning, Louise Bourgeois, Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas, Howardena Pindell, Joan Semmel, Nancy Graves, Cecily Brown, Carrie Mae Weems, Barbara Hepworth, Marlene Dumas, Alma Thomas, Leonor Fini, Franciszka Themerson, Sahara Longe, Elizabeth Colomba will be exhibited, as well as many more.

Thus works by Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Damien Hirst and others were included in the museum alongside their ancient sources of inspiration.

The founder of the museum is Christian Levett, a British investment manager renowned for his great interest in history and art.

He has funded archaeological works in the UK, Spain, Italy and Egypt and sponsored academic scholarships at Wolfson College and The Ruskin School of Art in Oxford.

The People and Personalities Gallery on the ground floor presented busts and statues of historical figures from ancient Greece and Rome, their influence highlighted by sculptures of Sosno, Arman, Quinn and Hirst.

New pieces were acquired with a view to sustaining and developing the museum's concept of the fusion of ancient and modern art and the influence that Antiquity has had on subsequent artistic creation.