Category Archive: Exhibitions

Last week, Peter Sommer, Michael Metcalfe and myself visited the Acropolis Museum’s current temporary exhibition: Eleusis – the Great Mysteries. The exhibit, open until the end of May (unless it … Read More

How time flies when you are busy. Just two weeks ago, I was showing the year’s last group of guests around the sunny Northern Peloponnese, but now I am receiving … Read More

Scythians: Warriors of Ancient Siberia follows on in a way from the British Museum’s recent Celts exhibition in being an overarching introduction to a whole people. This isn’t unlike the … Read More

Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) was a Dutch-born artist who moved to England in 1870 and made it his new home, becoming one of the most popular and prolific British-based painters of … Read More

One of our trusted tour experts, Cathie Draycott, has recently visited the “Life and Death – Pompeii and Herculaneum” exhibition at London’s British Museum, which is still open until September … Read More

News? Isn’t Peter Sommer Travels principally about archaeology, history and ancient culture, in other words about old things? Of course we are, but since summer 2011, our gulet cruises between … Read More