EXHIBITS – Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greek Art
My review of the British Museum’s – Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greek Art which explores daily life, gender, sexuality, athleticism, heroism, and the social and political ideologies the Greeks espoused through their views on the human form.
Ancient Egyptian Burial Practices at the British Museum
A review of my visit to the Ancient Egyptian gallery at the British Museum, London, England.
Top 5 Places to See Ancient Rome in London
Here are a few places you can visit to see something of Ancient Rome in London – and all are free!
The Cult of Isis at Ancient Messene
The location of a sanctuary dedicated to the cult of Isis and Sarapis close to the theatre of ancient Messene is reported by Pausanias
An app that will change museums?
The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada has launched a new App for Smartphones and tablet computers that is designed to give museum visitors a whole new way of looking at its collection.
The past come into the present – Does the New Acropolis Museum in Athens encompass successfully the archaeological and ancient past?
The 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
Egyptian-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.
"The Past on Display: A Curatorial Perspective"
What 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.
The Face of the Mummy: The Social Impact of Mummy’s and Mummy Unrollings on the Nineteenth Century
What was it about mummies in the nineteenth century that so fascinated the middle and elite classes?
New Byzantine and Roman galleries open at the Royal Ontario Museum
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto, Canada will be opening a new set of permanent galleries tomorrow that will showcase its impressive…