Category Archive: Exhibitions
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'Gold of the Great Steppe' at the Fitzwilliam Museum
Some time in antiquity - we can’t be sure exactly when, but some time around the eighth-sixth centuries BC - grave robbers broke into a large burial tumulus near its ... Read More
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Troy: Myth and Reality at the British Museum
Putting on an exhibition about Troy and the Trojan War carries a particular weight of expectation. It’s at the centre of everything for so many of us: archaeologists, ancient historians, ... Read More
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Secret Rivers at the Museum of London Docklands
London and the Thames go inseparably hand-in-hand. The city originates in large part because of the river, and traffic along it has given it life since its beginning. As ... Read More
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Claudius the Emperor / Claudio Imperatore - exhibition in Rome
It only occurred to me much later that there were curtains closing this exhibition off from the museum upstairs and partitioning the various sections. I can’t decide if I prefer ... Read More
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I am Ashurbanipal, King of the World, King of Assyria, at the British Museum
The BP exhibition I am Ashurbanipal: king of the world, king of Assyria is the latest in an occasional series of British Museum exhibitions based on the lives of individual ... Read More
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"Eleusis: the Great Mysteries" exhibition at the Acropolis Museum in Athens
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
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Christmas Gifts for History Lovers, Travellers and Gourmets, 2017
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
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"Scythians: Warriors of Ancient Siberia" at the British Museum, London
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
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Appreciating Lawrence Alma-Tadema
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
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The Last Days of Pompeii
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
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Miletus Museum reopened
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
