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The latest on acquisitions, exhibitions, and key decisions.
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Museum news
The latest on acquisitions, exhibitions, and key decisions.
Bronze Age – Fires of change
A major exhibition at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden explores a period of massive transformation in the Netherlands and beyond. Amy Brunskill spoke to curator Luc Amkreutz to find out more.
War and the Mind
Reviewing the best military history exhibitions with MHM.
Fishbourne Roman Palace: Excavating the CA archive
My ‘great site’ this month is one close to many people’s hearts. When I think of the locations that embody the best of Current Archaeology as a magazine and British archaeology as a community, I consistently alight on Fishbourne Roman Palace in West Sussex. This site has it all – great coverage in the magazine, enthusiastic public engagement, stunning finds, and charismatic custodians.
Ancient Egypt December listings
BETWEEN PRAGUE AND CAIRO: 100 YEARS OF CZECH EGYPTOLOGY A century of Czech archaeology in Egypt and Sudan is celebrated in a new exhibition presenting the work of the Czech Institute of Egyptology of Charles University, featuring in particular the…
Current Archaeology’s December Listings: exhibitions, events, and heritage from home
There are many brilliant archaeological events coming up into the New Year, from new exhibitions to conferences, talks, and more. If you would prefer to get your history and heritage fix at home, though, there is a wide variety of offerings to choose from, including virtual museum- and site-tours, digital collections, podcasts, and TV shows. Amy Brunskill has put together a selection of some of the options available.
Museum news
The latest on acquisitions, exhibitions, and key decisions.
Echoes of ancient Dacia
A new exhibition at the Drents Museum tells the story of the Dacians through their spectacular treasures. Gillis Kersting visited to find out more.
Old Fort Erie
Reviewing the best military history exhibitions with Christopher Warner.
Museum news
The latest on acquisitions, exhibitions, and key decisions.
Unique coin hoard acquired for the nation
A collection of over 2,500 silver pennies, hidden in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest, is to go on display at the British Museum later this month, before finding a permanent home close to where it was found.
A New Roman Landscape in Sussex at Worthing Museum & Art Gallery
The Culver Archaeological Project has been running for almost 20 years. Carly Hilts reviews a new exhibition exploring its discoveries at two major Roman sites in Sussex’s Upper Ouse Valley.
Museum news
The latest on acquisitions, exhibitions, and key decisions.
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.
Cold War Scotland
Reviewing the best military history exhibitions with Calum Henderson.
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 from Egyptian museums, most never before displayed in…
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’.
Museum news
The latest on acquisitions, exhibitions, and key decisions.
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 of three decommissioned World War II- era naval…
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, and Manchester Museum. Highlights include the earliest known…
Perth Museum
CA profiles the new Perth Museum, which opened at the end of March.
Museum news
The latest on acquisitions, exhibitions, and key decisions
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.
Museum news
The latest on acquisitions, exhibitions, and key decisions
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.
Museum news
The latest on acquisitions, exhibitions, and key decisions.
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.