Fordham Opens Its Gift: An Antiquities Museum

For some four decades, William D. Walsh browsed auction catalogs in search of the ancient artifacts that would gratify his passion for classical antiquity.

From Greek terra cotta vases to Roman marble heads to Etruscan urns, he gradually assembled a private gallery of more than 200 pieces of varying shapes, sizes and materials at his home in Menlo Park, Calif.

Today nearly all of those antiquities are to go on view at Fordham University in the Bronx as a permanent gift from Mr. Walsh, a financier and philanthropist.