Museum

A panel discussion on decolonising 'the museum,' featuring the voices of people of colour working on the issue. Our speakers are: Cina Aissa, an artist educator and a member of Museum Detox (a network for museum and gallery workers of colour) Dr Zainab Bahrani, Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia...

Do you know how colourful the ancient world was? In this activity, ideal for children and families, the Education Coordinator at the Museum of Classical Archaeology will show you how to draw a simplified Ancient Greek Temple and decorate it. All you need to do is follow the step-by-step instructions in our fun...

Join Curator Dr Susanne Turner on this virtual tour of the Museum of Classical Archaeology's Cast Gallery. The Museum houses a rather unusual exception: instead of original statues, the Cast Gallery is packed with more than 600 historical plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculptures. But why do we have all these replicas...

How and why does classical antiquity live on in us and in our worlds? Join the Museum of Classical Archaeology online for poetry readings by Lesley Saunders and Josephine Balmer, framed by the evocative surroundings of our gallery of classical casts. Their performance responds to the idea expressed by the classical scholar...

Explore the exhibition, Lines of Site, with artist Debbie Loftus, followed by an artist-led drawing tour. Based on works produced during a residency at the British Museum, she focuses in on the resonance of shattered fragments and broken lines of the Parthenon frieze in her work. Debbie uses analogue and digital techniques...

In 2018, the BBC aired an inventive retelling of the story surrounding Homer's Iliad called Troy: Fall of a City. The show attracted a lot of attention, particularly because it cast a number of major characters — Achilles, Artemis, Patroclus, Zeus — as black. The inevitable controversy highlighted a number of issues. Is...

A look at the fascinating stories of non-normative gender and sexual identities through a range of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer-related objects.

A look at the fascinating stories of non-normative gender and sexual identities through a range of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer-related objects.