Current and Upcoming Museum Exhibitions

Updated 25 July 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

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–TBD
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
Cambridge

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

Life & Death in the Ancient World

13 January 2023–2026
Tampa Museum of Art
Tampa

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
Walker Gallery
Maine

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

Carpets and Canopies in Mughal India

22 March 2024–01 September 2024
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland

For more information: https://www.clevelandart.org/exhibitions/carpets-and-canopies-mughal-india

Picture Worlds: Greek, Maya, Moche Pottery

10 April 2024–29 July 2024
The Getty Villa
Los Angeles

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

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/

Ancient Thrace: Treasures from the Classical World

06 November 2024–03 March 2025
The Getty Villa
Los Angeles

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

Canada

First Royals of Europe

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

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

Europe, The United Kingdom, and Russia

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

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

Opened 18 October 2023-Fall 2024
Musée du Louvre
Paris

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

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

Elephantine: Insel der Jahrtausende
(Elephantine: Island of the Millennia)

Opened 26 April 2024–27 October 2024
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Berlin

For more information: https://www.smb.museum/en/exhibitions/detail/elephantine/

Greece

Metropolis of the Morrylians
Mητρόπολις Μορρυλίων

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

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

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

Switzerland

Retour vers le futur antérieur. Trésors archéologiques du 21e siècle.
(Back to the past future. Archaeological treasures of the 21st century)

25 November 2023–24 September 2024
Musée Romain De Lausanne-Vidy
Lausanne

For more information: www.lausanne.ch/vie-pratique/culture/musees/mrv/expositions/expositions-temporaires.html

United Kingdom

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

Introducing Must Farm, a Bronze Age Settlement

Opened 27 April 2024–28 September 2024
Peterborough Museum
Peterborough

For more information: https://peterboroughmuseum.org.uk/events/exhibition-introducing-must-farm-a-bronze-age-settlement

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

Silk Roads

26 September 2024–23 February 2024
The British Museum
London

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

Asia

India

Ancient Sculptures: India Egypt Assyria Greece Rome

1 December 2023-October 2024
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya
Mumbai

For more information: csmvs.in/ancient-sculptures/

Oceania

Australia

Discovering Ancient Egypt

December 2023–08 September 2024

National Museum of Australia
Canberra

For more information: https://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/discovering-ancient-egypt

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