SARATOGA SPRINGS — You won’t see a beheading sword in the mayor’s office at City Hall, despite Michael Levinson’s urging that it be put there.

“It was nixed by the risk and safety manager,” said Levinson, the new exhibitions curator at the Saratoga Springs History Museum.

Although weapons were banned from the public building, other antique implements will be on display in the mayor’s office area, including the public reception area and the offices of the city attorney, deputy mayor and mayor.

“There was no reason for the mayor’s office to look second-rate,” he said. “This community is filled with sophisticated people who are in the know.”

On Friday, Levinson hung a wooden Moro shield that would have been used in battle on the wall behind where mayor’s assistant Therese Connolly sits.

He also brought in carved canes, polo sticks and an elaborate inkstand for Mayor Scott Johnson to see and decide what to display.

The mayor’s office has hosted temporary exhibits before, but Levinson wants to make this one more lasting.

“I’m doing something that’s a little more permanent and historically accurate.”

All the engravings and artifacts are from the 1870s, when City Hall was built. And they were all in storage at the museum.

“I feel it’s important for artifacts to be out and breathing. Otherwise, they serve no purpose,” Levinson said.

He said none of the antiques are particularly expensive, but just in case, they’re being put in the mayor’s office where the public won’t have unsupervised access to them.

There’s been renewed interest recently in bringing City Hall back to its roots.

A project to place granite steps on the front of the building and bring back the lions that once flanked the entrance is almost complete.

Commissioner of Public Works Anthony “Skip” Scirocco also wants to rebuild the bell tower that once topped City Hall.

Unlike those larger projects, the artifacts are on loan for free. Levinson, an interior designer, is volunteering his time to install them, and his friend, Rodney DeJong, is planning to donate his time and materials to frame and arrange portraits of the city’s mayors, which hang on the wall in two rows in the reception area but are overflowing that space.

In addition, Levinson wants to have DeJong frame the First Night posters hanging over the desk of Nancy Woodworth, assistant to the city attorney, he said.