Permanent Exhibition
The permanent exhibition, installed in 2025, features more than 800 artifacts from the ancient Near East, Egypt, Cyprus, Greece, Rome, central Italy, and Mesoamerica.
The exhibit cases are arranged by both geographic region and theme. This layout encourages visitors to explore cross-cultural connections and to compare traditions across different ancient societies.
Exhibit Case Topics
Egyptian
- The Egyptian Predynastic Period
- Early Egypt
- Pottery in Dating
- Ancient Egyptian Languages & Scripts
- Beautiful Function
- Egyptian Deities
- The Lived Environment
- Workers for the Afterlife
- Ancient Egyptian Identities
- Ancient Egyptian Funerary Art
- Egyptian Sculpture: Ptolemaic
- Egyptian Sculpture
Cross-Cultural
- Ancient & Islamic Glass
- Military & Athletics
- Beauty & Adornment
- Writing
Greek
- Deities of the Mediterranean
- Early Cypriot & Greek Ceramics
- Portraits of the Past: Greek and Roman Figures
- Greco-Roman Life and Leisure
- Greek Ceramics: Crafting Daily Life
- Greek Ceramics: Drinking Culture
Cypriot
- Early Cypriot & Greek Ceramics
- Cyprus in Context: Identities Crafted in Clay
Near Eastern
- Levantine Pottery
- Mesopotamia
Italian
- Metalwork
- The Interconnected World of Central Italy
Roman
- Deities of the Mediterranean
- Metalwork
- Portraits of the Past: Greek and Roman Figures
- Roman Surgical Kit
- Greco-Roman Life and Leisure
- Marble Statue of Eros
- Latin Funerary Inscriptions
Mesoamerican
- Ancient Americas