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.

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The ISAC Museum Collections

Browse the ISAC Museum collections online.

Joseph Lindon Smith

Contemporary Art

Explore current and past installations of contemporary art in the ISAC Museum.

Chicago on the Nile

Explore our previous special exhibition.