The Making of the British Museum's Sicily Exhibition. A talk with curator Dirk Booms
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Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
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The Making of the British Museum's Sicily Exhibition. A talk with curator Dirk Booms
The Making of the British Museum's Sicily Exhibition. A talk with curator Dirk Booms.
Dr Dirk Booms, curator in the Department of Greek and Roman, British Museum, in conversation with Dr Caroline Goodson, Senior Lecturer of Medieval History and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London.
The co-curator of the current landmark exhibition, Sicily: Culture and Conquest, will discuss the process of developing this exhibition, from first concept to final installation. The exhibition covers the history of the Mediterranean island from the ancient Greeks to the Muslim Conquest and ends with the multiculturalism of Norman Sicily. The exhibition charts relationships between the island's inhabitants and their conquerors over 1500 years. Booms' work on this exhibition has taken him into museum basements all over the world to find the right objects to bring to London.
This event is sponsored by the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology. It is open and free to all. For further information, please contact c.goodson@bbk.ac.uk
The event is free entry, first come, first seated.
The exhibition runs until 14 August.
Contact name:
Dr Caroline Goodson
Contact phone:
0207 631 6252