Category Archives: Archeology

Prehistory to 1714, First Part of the Permanent Exhibition, History Museum of Catalonia

The permanent exhibition is a proposal to explore the history of Catalonia, ranging from prehistoric times to the present day, focusing its discourse on the knowledge and understanding of the characteristics and evolution of the societies that have occupied the territory today known. as in Catalonia, emphasizing both the political,…

Prehistory to 1714, First Part of the Permanent Exhibition, History Museum of Catalonia

Ancient Egypt, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

Adding more than 700 items, the National Museum’s Egyptian archeology collection was the largest in Latin America and the oldest in the Americas. Most of the pieces entered the museum’s collection in 1826, when the merchant Nicolau Fiengo brought from Marseille a collection of Egyptian antiquities that belonged to the…

Ancient Egypt, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

Mediterranean cultures, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

The National Museum’s classic archeology collection consisted of approximately 750 pieces, mostly covering the Greek, Roman, Etruscan and Italian civilizations, the largest of its kind in Latin America. Much of this collection corresponded to the Greco-Roman collection of Empress Teresa Cristina, interested in archeology since her youth. When she landed…

Mediterranean cultures, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

Pre-columbian Archeology, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

The National Museum conserved an important set of approximately 1,800 artifacts produced by Amerindian civilizations during the pre-Columbian era, in addition to Andean mummies. Formed over the 19th century, this collection had its origins in the collections of the Brazilian imperial family, especially in the Pedro II collection, having subsequently…

Pre-columbian Archeology, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

Brazilian Archeology, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

The collection of Brazilian archeology brought together a vast set of artifacts produced by the people who inhabited the Brazilian territory in the pre-colonial period, with more than 90,000 items, being considered the most comprehensive collection existing in its typology. Constituted since the beginning of the 19th century, the collection…

Brazilian Archeology, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

Oreretama, National History Museum of Brazil

Setting reproduces a cave in the Serra da Capivara National Park, Piauí, with cave drawings representing animals. Sambaquis, found on the coast of Rio de Janeiro, warn of the need to preserve archaeological sites and the environment. A word that in Tupi means “our home”, Oreretama presents the indigenous populations,…

Oreretama, National History Museum of Brazil

Anthropology Halls in North Wing, Mexico National Museum of Anthropology

The National Museum of Anthropology (MNA) has 24 exhibition halls. The rooms dedicated to anthropology and pre-Hispanic cultures of the Mexican territory are located on the ground floor, from the Population of America to the Mesoamerican Postclassic Period. The permanent exhibitions on the ground floor cover all pre-Columbian civilizations located…

Anthropology Halls in North Wing, Mexico National Museum of Anthropology

Anthropology Halls in South Wing, Mexico National Museum of Anthropology

Anthropology Halls in South Wing, Mexico National Museum of Anthropology

The world of stored specimens, Hokkaido University Museum

Hokkaido University has accumulated over 4 million specimens and materials in the long history since the days of Sapporo Agricultural School. About 3 million specimens and materials are stored at the Hokkaido University Museum, some of which are open to the public. Please pay attention to the “appealing power” of…

The world of stored specimens, Hokkaido University Museum

Hokkaido’s Tale of 1.2 Million Years, Hokkaido Museum

It is sometimes said that the history of Hokkaido is brief. Certainly, it has only been 150 years since settlement and development first brought a large population to Hokkaido. However, looking further into the past, we will find that unlike the simple picture painted in many Japanese history textbooks, this…

Hokkaido’s Tale of 1.2 Million Years, Hokkaido Museum

Palazzo dei Conservatori, Capitoline Museums

The Palazzo dei Conservatori, headquarters of the magistrature of the same name for hundreds of years, has, since the end of the 15th century, been home to the Capitoline collection of sculptures. The palazzo’s interior design and the layout of the works of art has been modified over the years.…

Palazzo dei Conservatori, Capitoline Museums

National Museum of Archaeology, Birgu, Malta

The National Museum of Archaeology is a Maltese museum of prehistoric artifacts, located in Valletta. It is managed by Heritage Malta. Housed at the Auberge de Provence, in Republic Street, Valletta, it is renowned as one of the most elaborately decorated Baroque buildings in the city. It was constructed in…

National Museum of Archaeology, Birgu, Malta

Pompei@Madre. Archaeological Matter: The Collections, Madre – Donnaregina Contemporary Art Museum

The exhibition “Pompei@Madre. Materia Archeologica: Le Collezioni”, organized by the Madre museum in collaboration with the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, explores the potential multiple relationships between archaeological heritage and modern and contemporary artistic research, creating a dialogue between extraordinary but rarely displayed material from Pompeii and the artworks of Madre…

Pompei@Madre. Archaeological Matter: The Collections, Madre – Donnaregina Contemporary Art Museum

The Bell and Cauldron Inscriptions, A Feast of Chinese Characters: the Origin and Development, Taiwan National Palace Museum

The foundation of Chinese culture was laid four thousand years ago in the remote ages of Three Dynasties (c. 2070 ~ 221 B.C.E.): Xia, Shang, and Zhou, during which Rites and Music acquired the status of the keystone of society. Their importance is illustrated by the fact that Confucius (551…

The Bell and Cauldron Inscriptions, A Feast of Chinese Characters: the Origin and Development, Taiwan National Palace Museum

Rituals Cast in Brilliance, Masterpieces of Bronzes in the Museum Collection, Taiwan National Palace Museum

The Bronze Age of China started in the late Xia dynasty (c. early 17th century B.C.E.), lasting about 1,500 years through several dynasties from Shang to Western Zhou and Eastern Zhou. Even after the subsequent emergence of iron in Qin and Han dynasties, bronzes continued to be in use. During…

Rituals Cast in Brilliance, Masterpieces of Bronzes in the Museum Collection, Taiwan National Palace Museum

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