Museums Archive
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Controversial exhibition on King Herod’s Tomb is featured tonight on Museum Secrets
Posted on March 21, 2013 | No CommentsA new exhibition at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem focusing on an ancient world's most controversial figures is drawing interest from the around the world, as well as creating new controversy -
The past come into the present – Does the New Acropolis Museum in Athens encompass successfully the archaeological and ancient past?
Posted on March 12, 2013 | No CommentsThe New Acropolis Museum opened to the public on the 21st June, 2009. Nearly four thousand artefacts are exhibited over an area of fourteen thousand square metres. -
A question of authenticity and date: Roman copies and Ptolemaic originals
Posted on March 8, 2013 | No CommentsEgyptian-style sculptures from the Roman period are often dismissed as modern forgeries on account of their unusual proportions and stylised features. This article considers the Imperial Roman fashion of using Egyptian and Egyptianising sculptural representations concentrating on three statues of questionable authenticity. -
Royal Ontario Museum to host Mesopotamia exhibition
Posted on February 21, 2013 | No CommentsToronto's Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) will be hosting the Mesopotamia exhibition later this year, the first stop in a North American tour of artefacts from the British Museum. -
“The Past on Display: A Curatorial Perspective”
Posted on February 17, 2013 | No CommentsWhat goes into creating a captivating museum display? How do museums engage their visitors? Dr. Kate Cooper answered these questions in a fascinating talk at the University of Toronto about challenges in museum curation. -
A ‘City of Gold’ unearths new educational opportunities at Princeton University
Posted on December 15, 2012 | No CommentsThe excavation set the stage for hands-on learning experiences for hundreds of Princeton students; new academic courses; and a major loan exhibition, 'City of Gold: Tomb and Temple in Ancient Cyprus,' on view until January 20, 2013, at the Princeton University Art Museum. -
Massive Mesopotamia exhibition coming to Toronto
Posted on October 17, 2012 | No CommentsA major international exhibit on ancient Mesopotamia will be coming to Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum next year. The exhibit, called 'The Wonders of Ancient Mesopotamia' will feature artifacts now in the British Museum and will run from June 22, 2013 - January 5, 2014. -
British Museum to host major exhibition on Ancient Rome in 2013
Posted on September 20, 2012 | No CommentsLife and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum will bring together over 250 fascinating objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations -
The Face of the Mummy: The Social Impact of Mummy
Posted on August 22, 2012 | No CommentsWith the onslaught of Egyptian mania, came the nineteenth century obsession with mummies and the fad of unrolling them in front of intimate and grand audiences alike. -
The Napoleonic Egyptian Scientific Expdition and the Ninetenth-Century Survey Museum
Posted on April 4, 2012 | No CommentsIn the eighteenth-century European imagination, however, ancient Egypt was a place of mystery. Three tangible aspects of Egyptian culture contributed to this view- mummies, hieroglyphs and the ancient Egyptian monuments present in Egypt.
