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Past Museum Exhibitions

Current and Upcoming Museum Exhibitions

Each month, the AJA provides information about current and upcoming museum exhibits around the world that are related to topics within the scope of the journal. The list includes exhibition dates, locations, curators, information about catalogues, and links to museum websites with further information. It is organized by geographic location (The Americas, Europe, the United Kingdom and Russia, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Oceania). Within that larger framework, exhibitions are arranged alphabetically by country and then by closing date. If a catalogue is not mentioned, then no catalogue is known to us. New museums and permanent gallery installations are included on the list for six months following their opening. The AJA Museum Review Editor welcomes input from readers for additions to this list.

A new section, Digital/Online Exhibitions, now appears at the end. Born-digital exhibitions will be added here and maintained as long as the exhibitions continue to remain online.

The Americas

Canada

First Royals of Europe

5 April 2024–19 January 2025
The Canadian Museum of History
Gatineau, Québec

For more information: https://www.historymuseum.ca/event/first-royals-europe/

United States

Ancient Thrace: Treasures from the Classical World

6 November 2024–3 March 2025
The Getty Villa
Los Angeles

For more information: http://www.getty.edu/visit/exhibitions/future.html

Chicago on the Nile: 100 Years of the Epigraphic Survey in Egypt

17 September 2024–23 March 2025
The University of Chicago ISAC Museum
Chicago, Illinois

For more information: https://isac.uchicago.edu/chicagonile

Creation, Birth, and Rebirth

17 August 2024–27 July 2025
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, Ohio

For more information: https://www.clevelandart.org/exhibitions/creation-birth-and-rebirth

Crossroads of Culture, 400–1800

Through 31 May 2026
Dates provided here are estimates; please see the exhibition website for further information
University of Michigan, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Ann Arbor, Michigan

For more information: https://lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/exhibitions/special-exhibitions/big-object-spotlights.html

Etruscan Gifts: Artifacts from Early Italy in the Bowdoin Collection

1 February 2024–9 February 2025
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Burnswick, Maine

For more information: https://www.bowdoin.edu/art-museum/exhibitions/2024/etruscan-gifts.html

Horizon of Khufu!

Various locations in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, and China

For more information: https://horizonkheopsexperience.com/

King Tut’s Tomb Discovery Experience

1 October 2024–31 May 2025
Dates provided here are estimates; please see the exhibition website for further information
Houston Museum of Natural Science
Houston, Texas

For more information: https://www.hmns.org/exhibits/king-tuts-tomb/

Life & Death in the Ancient World

13 January 2023–31 December 2026
Tampa Museum of Art
Tampa, Florida

For more information: https://tampamuseum.org/life-death-in-the-ancient-world

Mediterranean Marketplaces: Connecting the Ancient World

14 February 2024–27 April 2025
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
Cambridge, Massachusetts

For more information: https://hmane.harvard.edu/mediterranean-marketplaces/

Portraits of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna

3 August 2024–30 March 2025
Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art
Bloomington, Indiana

For more information: https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/exhibitions/current/_focus-exhibitions/2024-08-03-septimius-severus-julia-domna.html

Rising Signs: The Medieval Science of Astrology

1 October 2024–5 January 2025
The Getty Villa
Los Angeles, California

For more information: https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/rising-signs/index.html

Sculpted Portraits from Ancient Egypt

24 January 2024–25 January 2027
The Getty Villa
Los Angeles

For more information: https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/egyptian_sculptures

Seeing Red

15 June 2024–9 November 2026
North Carolina Museum of Art
Raleigh, North Carolina

For more information: https://ncartmuseum.org/exhibition/seeing-red/

Europe, The United Kingdom, and Russia

Austria

Anker Lichten! Schiffbruch in der Antike und Kulturgüterschutz heute
(Raise The Anchor! Shipwrecks in antiquity and protection of cultural artifacts today)

4 October 2024–16 February 2025
Kunsthistoriches Museum: Wien
Vienna, Austria

For more information: https://www.khm.at/en/visit/exhibitions/vitrine-extra-5/

Czech Republic

Tajemná Núbie
(Mysterious Nubia)

11 June 2024–31 December 2024
Národní Museum
Prague

For more information: https://www.nm.cz/en/naprstek-museum/mysterious-nubia

France

Dialogues d’antiquités Orientales
(Near Eastern Antiquities in Dialogue)

29 February 2024–28 September 2025
Musée du Louvre
Paris

For more information: https://www.louvre.fr/en-ce-moment/expositions/the-met-au-louvre

Egypt Augmented

18 October 2023–21 December 2024
Musée du Louvre
Paris

For more information: https://newsroom.snap.com/egypt-augmented

Héros Vikings
(Viking Heroes)

10 February 2024–29 December 2024
Val D’oise Archaeological Museum
Paris

For more information: https://www.valdoise.fr/annuaire/128/294-libelle.htm

Greece

Mητρόπολις Μορρυλίων
(Metropolis of the Morrylians)

15 February 2024–31 December 2024
Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki

For more information: https://www.amth.gr/en/exhibitions/temporary/mitropolis-morrylion

Hungary

Feltárva!
(Uncovered!)

2 June 2023–31 December 2024
BHM Aquinicum Museum
Budapest

For more information: http://www.aquincum.hu/en/kiallitas/feltarva-avagy-meg-mindig-van-uj-a-fold-alatt/

Kindoms of Gods and Demons: Mesopotamia 1000-500 BCE
(Istenek és démonok királysága. Mezopotámia Kr. e. 1000-500)

5 October 2024–2 February 2025
Museum of Fine Arts Budapest
Budapest

For more information: https://www.mfab.hu/exhibitions/kingdom-of-gods-and-demons-mesopotamia-1000-500-bce/

Italy

The rediscovered fragment

29 April 2021–28 April 2026
Musei Capitolini
Rome

For more information: https://www.museicapitolini.org/en/node/1008893

Spain

Poder femenino: lo divino a lo demoníaco
(Feminine power: the divine to the demonic)

27 November 2024–30 March 2025
La Caixa Forum
Zaragoza

For more information: https://www.britishmuseum.org/our-work/international/international-touring-exhibitions/feminine-power

Poder femenino: lo divino a lo demoníaco
(Feminine power: the divine to the demonic)

30 April 2023–10 August 2025
La Caixa Forum
Valencia

For more information: https://www.britishmuseum.org/our-work/international/international-touring-exhibitions/feminine-power

United Kingdom

Silk Roads

26 September 2024–23 February 2025
The British Museum
London

For more information: https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/silk-roads

The Middle East

Qatar

Splendours of the Atlas: A Voyage Through Morocco’s Heritage

2 November 2024–8 March 2025
Museum of Islamic Art
Doha

For more information: https://mia.org.qa/en/calendar/splendours-of-the-atlas/

Asia

China

On Top of the Pyramid: The Civilization of Ancient Egypt

19 July 2024–17 August 2025
Shanghai Museum
Huangpu

For more information: https://www.shanghaimuseum.net/mu/frontend/pg/article/id/E00004197

Digital / Online Exhibitions

This section includes born-digital exhibitions.

Aura: Art and Authenticity

Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University
Palo Alto

For more information: https://museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions/aura-art-and-authenticity

Complete Museum Tour 360

Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum
San Jose

For more information: https://egyptianmuseum.org/360-museum-tour

Fly Over Zone: Virtual Museum

Opened 21 June 2022

This website includes virtual tours of ancient sites and a virtual museum of Greek and Roman sculpture.

For more information: https://www.flyoverzone.com/

Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile

Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Ann Arbor

Catalogue: Emberling, Geoff and Suzanne Davis (eds). Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile and Beyond. Kelsey Museum Publications 16. Pp. xviii + 193. Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 2021. $39.00. ISBN: 978–0–9906623–9–6 (paper and freely downloadable).

For more information: https://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/graffiti-el-kurru/

Heroes & Hoplites

The Hellenic Museum
Melbourne

For more information: https://www.hellenic.org.au/exhibitions/heroes-and-hoplites

Musée national de Préhistoire: VISITE VIRTUELLE
(National Museum of Prehistory: Virtual Visit)

National Museum of Prehistory
Les Eyzies

For more information: https://musee-prehistoire-eyzies.fr/visite-virtuelle

Persepolis Reimagined

J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa
Pacific Palisades

For more information: https://persepolis.getty.edu/

Return to Palmyra

Getty Institute, J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa
Pacific Palisades

For more information: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/palmyra/exhibition.html

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: Virtuelle Rundgänge
(Berlin State Museums: Virtual Visit)

Berlin State Museums
Berlin

For more information: https://www.smb.museum/museen-einrichtungen/gemaeldegalerie/ueber-uns/virtueller-rundgang/gemaeldegalerie-360/

Unsilencing the Archives: Laborers at Tell en–Nasbeh (1926–1935)

Bade Museum of Biblical Archaeology
Berkeley

For more information: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/dc601d4d131145f88f828196860b8a44

Uruk 5,000 Jahre Megacity
(Uruk – 5,000 years of megacity)

Staatliche Museum
Berlin

For more information: https://storage.smb.museum/Virtueller_Rundgang/Uruk_5000/

Wondrous Machines

Opened 7 October 2022
RD Milns Antiquities Museum
Queensland

Curator: Janette McWilliam

For more information: https://uqantiquitiesonlineexhibitions.omeka.net/exhibits/show/wondrous-machines/introduction