Reconstructing the 1936 British School at Athens (BSA) Exhibition: A Workshop on the Study of Pre-World War II Archaeological Exhibitions using Archival Materials
Please click here for the program schedule for the workshop.
This workshop comes out of a collaborative project between the Ashmolean Museum and the British School at Athens to digitally reconstruct the BSA’s 50th Anniversary exhibition British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886 to 1936 in 1936 at Burlington House in London. This exhibition highlights the BSA as a preeminent archaeological research centre by displaying objects, drawings, photographs, and architectural plans from the excavations at Knossos, Sparta, Cyprus, Melos, Perachora, and Mycenae.
The Ashmolean Museum holds the exhibition materials from Sir Arthur Evans’s ‘Minoan Room’ as well as many of the objects which were lent to the show, while the BSA holds the remainder of the material displayed in the BSA Excavations, Byzantine, and Perachora Excavation rooms, as well as photographs of the exhibition. The output of this project is a digital publication which catalogues and analyses the recently digitised exhibition collections at both the Ashmolean Museum and the BSA Archive. The first part of the workshop will introduce the digital publication and the history of the 1936 Exhibition. In the second part of the workshop, scholars with interests in pre-World War II archaeological exhibitions and the history of the two institutions will present their work on the topic.
Organisers: Andrew Shapland, Renée Trepagnier, Amalia Kakissis, and Charlotte Townsend
Date: Wednesday 28 May, 2025
Time: 10:00-17:00
Location: Headly Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum Beaumont Street OX1 2PH
This event will be livestreamed and a link will be sent around a few days in advance.
If you have any queries, please contact renee.trepagnier@ashmus.ox.ac.uk
