It is relevant that Nancy Graves was raised in Pittsfield, Mass., where her father worked at the Berkshire Museum.

He was also a past officer of regional institutions like the Berkshire Museum and Berkshire Medical Center.

There she often visited the eclectic collection of paintings, paleontology, biology and mounted animals in the Berkshire Museum, where her father worked as the financial secretary.

A special section is devoted to the Erechtheum, a structure on the Acropolis whose immense architectural influence spread to the construction of the Berkshire Museum itself.

The enlarged show, which she first organized at the Berkshire Museum and brought here, invades the museum's entire first floor through April 22.

In 1987, she had a retrospective at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Mass.

Her mother, Margaret L. Poutasse, is the president of the Berkshire Museum, also in Pittsfield.

Berkshire Museum became a "window on the world."

Berkshire Museum is the repository for objects associated with the lives of well-known figures in American history.

Berkshire Museum continues to add to the collections through purchase and gift.