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Following the Eagle, After the Fire, and Treasure: Hidden, Lost, Found
CA recently visited exhibitions at three sites in the care of North East Museums, with displays exploring Roman military life and ideas of ‘treasure’.
Knaresborough Heritage Centre
A new museum, created and funded by the local community, has opened in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire. Leon Corneille-Cowell explains how the space came to be, and highlights some of its latest work and upcoming projects.
The Hidden Länd
A new exhibition takes visitors on a journey through 1,000 years of life in south-west Germany.
Star Carr: Life after the ice at the Yorkshire Museum
Britain’s largest exhibition focused on the Mesolithic period is currently running in York. Dr Adam Parker showed Carly Hilts around its displays.
Ancient Egypt August listings
TOP OF THE PYRAMIDS: THE CIVILISATION OF ANCIENT EGYPT This exhibition, co-hosted by the Shanghai Museum and the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, has more than 780 ancient Egyptian artefacts on loan
Museum of Cornish Life: a new archaeology display
A new display drawing on the Museum of Cornish Life’s extensive archaeological collections was recently unveiled. Laura Miucci introduces its key themes and highlights her favourite finds.
Six Lives at the National Portrait Gallery, London
Carly Hilts visited a new exhibition aiming to restore individuality to six women often grouped merely as the ‘wives of Henry VIII’.
Picture worlds: Greek, Maya, and Moche pottery
An exhibition at the Getty Villa Museum brings together painted vessels from three major ceramic traditions to explore these dynamic objects and the stories they tell.
Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park
Everyone has a story to tell. So do warships. The saga of the USS The Sullivans, which was launched in April 1943, is still making headlines today. The Fletcher-class destroyer is one
Ness of Brodgar: past, present and future at the Orkney Museum
As the Ness of Brodgar excavations enter their final season of fieldwork, Dr Colleen Batey reviews a new exhibition exploring the Orkney site’s unique Neolithic archaeology.
Lives in Our Landscape at Maidstone Museum
Maidstone Museum’s impressively eclectic collection of British archaeology has been redisplayed in an absorbing new gallery. Carly Hilts attended its official launch in June.
Ancient Egypt June listings
CREATURES OF THE NILE Creatures of the Nile explores the world of ancient Egyptian and Sudanese animals through more than 250 artefacts from the University of Liverpool’s Garstang Museum, National Museums Liverpool,
The other Pompeii: Common lives in the shadow of Vesuvius
An exhibition at Pompeii explores the less glamorous side of life in the ancient city.
Ranjit Singh: Sikh, Warrior, King
Reviewing the best military history exhibitions with Peter Popham.