Current and Upcoming Museum Exhibitions (To be Published on Nov 1st)

Updated 03 November 2024

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, East 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

United States

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

Crossroads of Culture, 400–1800

Now - Spring 2026
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

King Tut’s Tomb Discovery Experience

Oct 1 - TBD
Houston Museum of Natural Science
Houston, Texas

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

Portraits of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna

03 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

Horizon of Khufu!

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

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

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/

Life & Death in the Ancient World

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

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

Etruscan Gifts: Artifacts from Early Italy in the Bowdoin Collection

01 February 2024–09 February 2025
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Burnswick, Maine

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

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

Sculpted Portraits from Ancient Egypt

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

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

Rising Signs: The Medieval Science of Astrology

01 October 2024–05 January 2025
The Getty Villa
Los Angeles, California

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

Ancient Thrace: Treasures from the Classical World

06 November 2024–03 March 2025
The Getty Center
Los Angeles, California

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

Seeing Red

15 June 2024–TBD
North Carolina Museum of Art
Raleigh, North Carolina

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

Canada

First Royals of Europe

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

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

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

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

Belgium

Verhalen uit de ondergrond. Brugge in het jaar 1000
(Tales from the underground – Bruges in the year 1000)

9 December 2021–3 November 2024
Gruuthusemuseum
Bruges

For more information: www.museabrugge.be/kalender/tentoonstellingen/brugge-in-het-jaar-1000

Czech Republic

Tajemná Núbie
(Mysterious Nubia)

11 June 2024 - 31 December 2024
Národní Museum
Prague

Learn More information: https://www.nm.cz/en/naprstek-museum/mysterious-nubia

France

Héros Vikings
(Viking Heroes)

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

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

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

Germany

Of Beasts and Men - Menschen und Tiere in der Antiken Kunst

Opened 31 March 2023-TBD
Oberhessisches Museum
Giessen

For more information: www.uni-giessen.de/de/fbz/fb04/institute/altertum/klassarch/einrichtungen/antikensammlung/ausstellungen/sonderausstellungarchiv/beasts

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

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

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

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

Feltárva!
(Uncovered!)

2 June 2023 - 31 December 2024
BHM Aquinicum Museum
Budapest

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

Italy

The rediscovered fragment

29 April 2021–28 April 2026
Musei Capitolini
Rome

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

Il Museo della Forma Urbis
(Museum of the Forma Urbis)

January 2024–TBD
Celio archaeological park
Rome

For more information: https://www.sovraintendenzaroma.it/content/il-museo-della-forma-urbis

Spain

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

10 July 2023–3 November 2024
La Caixa Forum
Sevilla

27 November 2024–30 March 2025
La Caixa Forum
Zaragoza

30 April 2023–10 August 2025
La Caixa Forum
Valencia

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

United Kingdom

The Muddy Hoard

16 September 2023 - TBD
The Norris Museum
St Ives

Learn more information: https://www.norrismuseum.org.uk/hoard-poster/

Nothing Without Us: Experiences of Disability

Opened 16 November 2023
Pitt Rivers Museum
Oxford

Curator: Kyle Lewis Jordan

For more information: www.prm.ox.ac.uk/curating-for-change-at-pitt-rivers-museum

Silk Roads

26 September 2024–23 February 2025
The British Museum
London

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

Vatican City

Life and Death in the Rome of the Caesars

Opened 17 November 2023
Necropolis of the Via Triumphalis
Vatican City

For more information: www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en/eventi-e-novita/notizie/2023/necropoli-via-triumphalis-nuovo-ingresso.html

The Middle East

Qatar

Splendours of the Atlas: About the Galleries

02 November 2024 - 08 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.

Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile

Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Michigan

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: exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/graffiti–el–kurru/index.php

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

Bade Museum of Biblical Archaeology
Berkeley

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

Return to Palmyra

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

More information here: getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/palmyra/exhibition.html

Persepolis Reimagined

J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa
Pacific Palisades

For more information: persepolis.getty.edu/

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

Staatliche Museum
Berlin