Visit the ISAC Museum
Since our founding in 1919, ISAC has been a leading research center for the study of ancient civilizations. With some 350,000 artifacts, excavated mainly by ISAC archaeologists, the ISAC Museum invites you to learn about the beginnings of our lives as humans together. Through galleries devoted to Egypt, Nubia, Persia, Mesopotamia, Syria, Anatolia, and the Levant, come take a look into the ancient past.
Contemporary Art
Explore current and past installations of contemporary art in the ISAC Museum.
Staging the East: Orientalist Photography in Chicago Collections
Explore our previous special exhibition.
