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Vikings: the immersive experience and Pilgrimage of Love: Eleanor of Castile
Newly opened exhibitions at Dock X, London, and Leeds Castle, Kent,
include AI technology that brings the past to life in a startlingly personal way,
offering interactive audiences with medieval queens: one from Viking Age Scandinavia and the other from 13th-century England. Carly Hilts reports.
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.
Amesbury History Centre
With Amesbury’s recently opened History Centre celebrating six months of operations, Carly Hilts learned more about its displays and plans for the site’s future from Andrew Doig, one of its trustees.
Ancient Egypt April listings
PHARAOH In association with the British Museum, this exhibition celebrates 3,000 years of ancient Egyptian art and culture through more than 500 individual pieces from the British Museum’s permanent collection, curated specially
Introducing Must Farm, a Bronze Age Settlement at Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery
A new exhibition set to open later this month, and two newly published monographs, tell the story of Must Farm, an extraordinary Bronze Age site in Cambridgeshire that has shed vivid light on everyday life 3,000 years ago. Carly Hilts reports.
Iberians
A collaborative exhibition explores the Iron Age people of the Iberian Peninsula. Amy Brunskill spoke to curator Laurent Gorgerat to find out more.
Orford Ness national nature reserve
Reviewing the best Military History Exhibitions with Ben Goodlad.
Zimingzhong 凝时聚珍: clockwork treasures from China’s Forbidden City
London’s Science Museum is currently home to more than 20 examples of intricately ornate timepieces loaned from the Palace Museum in Beijing. Carly Hilts visited to find out more.
Ancient Egypt February listings
SCULPTED PORTRAITS FROM ANCIENT EGYPT Sculpted Portraits explores revival and renewal during Egypt’s Twenty-sixth Dynasty, through a series of sculpted portraits of court officials and priests, created for display in tombs and