If you visit the Museum of Classical Archaeology in Cambridge in the next month, you will see a display that I curated on the idea of forgeries. It might seem curious that a museum would keep such objects after they have been identified as fake and even put them on display, but this isn’t the first … Continue reading
Just thought I would put in a quick plug for the Cast Gallery’s current exhibtion, which launched on Friday: ‘The Labours of Herakles’ by New Zealand artist Marian Maguire. The exhibition is a series of interesting and beautifully-done etchings and lithographs depicting Herakles as a participant in the history of New Zealand – mostly focusing … Continue reading
I’m back in Canada for the holidays, and had the good fortune of being in Edmonton at the same time a touring exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology happened to be on there at the Telus World of Science. If you’re like me, you probably spent a great deal of your youth watching … Continue reading
Tucked away unobtrusively at the back of Oxford’s Sackler Library, the Griffith Institute of Egyptology is the home of the complete Howard Carter archives, documenting the discovery and ten-year excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun. The Institute celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, and so the Ashmolean’s current exhibition, “Discovering Tutankhamun“, explores the excavation and its … Continue reading
The British Museum’s Pompeii exhibition has been a rollicking success. It’s been lauded by most critics and the public are evidently lapping it up. But it’s not perfect. As I mentioned in the comments on Anna’s review, I entirely agree with almost everything she says about it: shame about some of the presentation choices but the … Continue reading
A reminder that the British Museum’s Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition, which I’m pretty sure all of us are going to want to go see, just opened today: http://blog.britishmuseum.org/2013/03/28/telling-the-human-story-of-pompeii-and-herculaneum/ As the self-appointed ResGerendae museum reviewer, I will certainly be visiting in the near future and sharing my thoughts, so watch this space! Continue reading
It’s not often that the Phoenicians make it into the mainstream press. They tend to get overlooked even by academia so it’s hardly a surprise that they rarely impinge upon the consciousness of the modern media. But in the last couple of weeks the Phoenicians have briefly made the headlines. The Daily Mail carried a … Continue reading
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