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Events

Up coming events

 

FRIENDS EVENT: ‘Quimbaya. Metallurgy of the early period in pre-Columbian Colombia' - Clemencia Plazas (4PM, 5 March 2024)

Lime container (Poporo) mo-o32852 and mo-o33160. Image credits: Photo by Clark M. Rodríguez, Museo del Oro, Banco de la República.

An online talk with Clemencia Plazas, an anthropologist from the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. This is a Friends only event, for more information and membership details visit the Friends page. Read more>>


FRIENDS EVENT: MAA Friends visit to the Pitt Rivers Museum (11:30AM, 8 May 2024)

A visit to Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum hosted by Dr Morton, Head of Curatorial, Research and Teaching. This is a Friends only event, for more information and membership details visit the Friends page. Read more>>


FRIENDS EVENT: 'When do we take our shoes off in the museum? On learning and teaching collections care in the southern Himalayas' - Dr Ayesha Fuentes (2PM, 26 June 2023)

Himalayan shrine. Image credit: Dr Ayesha Fuentes.

Dr Ayesha Fuentes, MAA's Isaac Newton Trust Research Associate in Conservation, will be speaking about her recent grant-funded collaboration with museums in the southern Himalayas, working with colleagues in the region to cultivate local practices and standards of care and conservation for cultural objects. This is a Friends only event, for more information and membership details visit the Friends page. Read more>>


Past events

Click here for a list of past MAA events

 

A ceremonial welcome and blessing being performed for the Pacific Currents exhibition.
 
Ceremonial welcome and blessing for the Pacific Currents exhibition with members of Ngati Ranana, (l-r) Ray Wen, Otena Hopaand Ray and David Jones. 
5 July 2018. Photography by Josh Mufitt.
MAA 387218, 2018-07-05-4952

Two million years of human history. One million artefacts. Countless astonishing stories.