Description
Time
June 26th-August 14th
Saturdays
9:30-10:30 a.m. EDT
8 hours in total.
Course Information
We will take students on virtual tours of some of Europe’s greatest and most important museum collections. For our presentations, we will give a brief description of the period of study, before we dive into the collections to see artefacts, art, and even complete ancient buildings from each period, to illustrate them and bring them to life!
The museums for this course will be:
- The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Russia’s greatest museum, with a collection that spans over 4000 years of human history, set in the palace complex of the former Russian Imperial family.
- The Neues Museum, Berlin’s “new” museum of ancient archaeology, which houses artefacts and art from some of the thousands of German and Prussian archaeological digs in Greece, Italy, and ancient Egypt.
- The Pergamonmuseum, Berlin. This museum was specially built to house full, reconstructed ancient buildings, including a magnificent Greek altar, a full temple, and ancient Hittite city gatehouses.
- The Musee du Louvre, Paris. Europe’s most famous art gallery and museum, the Louvre has limited online tours available, but special gallery exhibits will allow us to examine key concepts in art history, and appreciate some of the most important and beautiful works of art in the museum’s collections in great detail.
Speaker
James Johnson
Graduated from the University of Liverpool with a master’s degree in history, worked at the National Museum, specializing in archaeological research. His lectures are humorous and vivid, and are very infectious. He is often invited to give lectures on history by primary and secondary schools in the UK. He is about to complete his doctorate in history in the University of Stirling and is also a guest writer for many history magazines.
