You are here

Current and Upcoming Museum Exhibitions

Updated 01 February 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

Beyond King Tut: The Immersive Experience

Various locations in the United States and Canada
For more information: www.beyondkingtut.com/

Horizon of Khufu!

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

For more information: https://horizonkheops.com/en/

Back to School in Babylonia

21 September 2023-24 March 2024
Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Museum
Chicago

Lead Curator: Susanne Paulus

Catalogue Paulus, Susanne (ed). Back to School in Babylonia. ISAC Museum Publications 1. Pp. vii + 457. University of Chicago, 2023. $39.95. ISBN: 978-1-61491-098-5 (paper and freely downloadable).

For more information: isac.uchicago.edu/backtoschool

Africa and Byzantium

19 November 2023–3 March 2024
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City

For more information: www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/africa-byzantium

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: www.getty.edu/visit/exhibitions/future.html

Africa & Byzantium

14 April 2024–21 July 2024
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland

For more information: https://www.clevelandart.org/exhibitions/africa-byzantium

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

Croatia

Avari i Slaveni južno od Drave
(Avars and Slavs south of the Drava)

25 June 2023–TBD
Archaeological Museum in Split
Split

For more information: www.armus.hr/izlozbe/clanak/artmid/996/articleid/108/sve%c4%8dano-otvaranje-izlo%c5%bebe-avari-i-slaveni-ju%c5%beno-od-drave

France

Le grand mezzé
(The Great Mezzé)

19 May 2021–6 May 2024
Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée
Marseille

Curator: Édouard de Laubrie

Catalogue: Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée. Le Grand mezzé. Pp. 224. Actes Sud, Arles 2021. €32. ISBN 978-2330145194 (paper).

For more information: www.mucem.org/programme/exposition-et-temps-forts/le-grand-mezze

Une autre histoire du monde
(Another World Story)

08 November 2023–11 March 2024
Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée
Marseille

For more information: https://www.mucem.org/programme/exposition-et-temps-forts/une-autre-histoire-du-monde

Tutankhamun: Discovering the Forgotten Pharaoh

11 October 2023–23 February 2024
Strasbourg Exhibition Centre
Strasbourg

For more information: www.expo-toutankhamon.com

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

Geplündert – Geschunden – Gerettet [?] Die Gräber der Qubbet el-Hawa-Nord
(Robbed – Ransacked – Rescued [?] The Tombs of the Qubbet el-Hawa North)

15 September 2023–10 March 2024
Neues Museum
Berlin

For more information: https://www.smb.museum/en/exhibitions/detail/robbed-ransacked-rescued/

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

An Archaeology of Disability

15 December 2023–15 June 2024
Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki

For more information: https://www.amth.gr/en/exhibitions/temporary/archaeology-disability

Italy

Fidia

24 November-5 May 2024
Musei Capitolini
Rome

For more information: www.museicapitolini.org/en/node/1013440

Il frammento ritrovato. La mano del colosso di Costantino dei Musei Capitolini e il dito in bronzo del Louvre
(The Rediscovered Fragment. The Hand of the Colossus of Constantine from the Capitoline Museums and the Bronze Finger from the Louvre)

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

Netherlands

The Year 1000: The Netherlands in the middle of the Middle Ages

13 October 2023–17 March 2024
Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
Leiden

for more information: www.rmo.nl/en/exhibitions/temporary-exhibitions/the-year-1000/

Face to Face: The people behind Mummy Portraits

6 October 2023–25 February 2024
The Allard Pierson Museum
Amsterdam

for more information: www.allardpierson.nl

Spain

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

15 February 2024–9 June 2024
La Caixa Forum
Madrid

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

Superhelden: damals und heute
(Superheroes: Then and now)

November 2023–June 2024
Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwitg
Basel

For more information: www.antikenmuseumbasel.ch/en/ausstellungen.html

(IBERER)
Iberians

19 November 2023–26 May 2024
Antikenmuseum Basel
Basel

For more information: www.antikenmuseumbasel.ch/en/ausstellungen.html

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

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

Legion Life in the Roman Army

01 February 2024–23 June 2024
The British Museum
London

For more information: https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/legion-life-roman-army

 

The Middle East

Qatar

Fashioning an Empire: Textiles from Safavid Iran

November 2023-20 April 2024
Museum of Islamic Art
Doha

For more information: https://mia.org.qa/en/calendar/fashioning-an-empire/

Turkiye

The Adventure of Byzantine Studies in Turkey

23 June 2023-31 March 2024
ANAMED (Koç University Anatolian Civilizations Research Center)
Istanbul

Curator: Koray Durak

For more information: anamed.ku.edu.tr/en/merkezhan-exhibitions/the-odyssey-of-byzantine-studies-in-turkey/

 

Asia

China

The Glory of Ancient Persia

12 January 2024-11 April 2024
The Palace Museum
Beijing 

For more information: https://intl.dpm.org.cn/exhibition/details/97967.html
 

AlUla, Wonder of Arabia

06 January 2024-22 March 2024
The Palace Museum
Beijing

For more information: https://intl.dpm.org.cn/exhibition/details/97949.html

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

Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs

18 November 2023–19 May 2024
Australian Museum
Sydney

For more information: australian.museum/about/organisation/future-plans/

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

Ancient Lives: Insights from the Classics and Archaeology Collection

24 July 2023–26 April 2024
Potter Museum of Art
The University of Melbourne
Melbourne

For more information: art-museum.unimelb.edu.au/exhibitions/ancient-lives/

 

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

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

Complete Museum Tour 360

Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum
San Jose
For more information: egyptianmuseum.org/360-museum-tour

Aura: Art and Authenticity

Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University
Palo Alto

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

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: www.flyoverzone.com/

Heroes & Hoplites

The Hellenic Museum
Melbourne

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

Wondrous Machines

Opened 7 October 2022
RD Milns Antiquities Museum
Queensland

Lead Curator: Janette McWilliam

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