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  • Special Exhibits
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  • The Edgar and Deborah Jannotta Mesopotamian Gallery
  • The Yelda Khorsabad Court Gallery
  • The Dr. Norman Solhkhah Family Assyrian Empire Gallery
  • The Henrietta Herbolsheimer, M.D. Syro-Anatolian Gallery
  • The Haas and Schwartz Megiddo Gallery
  • The Joseph and Mary Grimshaw Egyptian Gallery
  • The Robert F. Picken Family Nubian Gallery
  • The Robert and Deborah Aliber Persian Gallery
  • Tours & Group Visits

  • Chicago on the Nile: 100 Years of the Epigraphic Survey in Egypt
    September 17, 2024–March 23, 2025
  • Pioneers of the Sky: Aerial Archaeology and the Black Desert
    April 25–August 18, 2024
  • Back to School in Babylonia
    September 21, 2023–March 25, 2024
  • Artifacts Also Die
    April 5–August 27, 2023
  • Making Sense of Marbles: Roman Sculpture at the OI
    September 15, 2022–March 12, 2023
  • Joseph Lindon Smith: The Persepolis Paintings
    January 27 – August 28, 2022
  • Antoin Sevruguin: Past and Present 
    April 1 – December 23, 2021
  • The First 100 Years: Anatolian Studies in Chicago
    September 12, 2017 – Spring 2019
  • Book of the Dead: Becoming God in Ancient Egypt
    October 3, 2017 – March 31, 2018
  • Drones over the Desert: Archaeology and Aerial Photography
    November 22, 2016 – September 10, 2017
  • Persepolis: Images of an Empire
    October 13, 2015 – September 3, 2017
  • A Threatened Heritage
    March 21, 2015 – December 18, 2016
  • Don't Take My Stuff. Tell My Story.
    May 1, 2016 – November 1, 2016
  • Our Work: Modern Jobs - Ancient Origins
    August 28, 2014 – Apri 24, 2016
  • A Cosmopolitan City: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Old Cairo
    February 17 – September 13, 2015
  • Mini Exhibit: Cairo in Chicago
    April 2 – September 13, 2015
  • In Remembrance of Me: Feasting with the Dead in the Ancient Middle East
    April 8, 2014 – January 4, 2015
  • Silk Road and Indian Ocean Traders: Connecting China and the Middle East 
    February 18 – October 19, 2014
  • Catastrophe! Ten Years Later: The Looting and Destruction of Iraq's Past
    April 10, 2013 – August 28, 2014
  • Michael Rakowitz: The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist
    March 18 – May 25, 2014
  • Our Work: Modern Jobs - Ancient Origins
    August 20, 2013 – February 23, 2014
  • Power and Legacy: The Cyrus Cylinder and Persian Expressions of Kingship 
    October 5, 2013 – February 2, 2014
  • Between Heaven & Earth: Birds In Ancient Egypt
    October 16, 2012 – July 28, 2013
  • Raiders of the Lost Journal: The Hunt for the Real Indiana Jones
    December 20, 2012 – March 31, 2013
  • Danh Vo's "We the People" Exhibition
    September 11, 2012 – December 16, 2012
  • Picturing the Past: Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle East
    February 7 – September 2, 2012
  • Before the Pyramids: The Origins of Egyptian Civilization
    March 29 – December 31, 2011
  • Commerce and Coins in the Ancient Near East
    August 11 – October 30, 2011
  • Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East
    September 28, 2010 – March 6, 2011
  • Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East 1919–20
    January 12 – August 29, 2010
  • The Life of Meresamun: A Temple Singer In Ancient Egypt
    February 10 – December 6, 2009
  • Catastrophe! The Looting of Iraq’s Past
    April 10 – December 31, 2008
  • European Cartographers and The Ottoman World 1500–1750: Maps from The Collection of O.J. Sopranos
    November 2, 2007 – March 16, 2008
  • Daily Life Ornamented: The Medieval Persian City of Rayy
  • Through Young Eyes: Ancient Nubian Art Recreated, funded by the Joyce Foundation.
    April 11 – May 6, 2007
  • Embroidering Identities: A Century of Palestinian Clothing
  • Wonderful Things! The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun
  • Lost Nubia: A Centennial Exhibit of Photographs from the 1905–1907 Egyptian Expedition of the University of Chicago
    February 2, 2006–May 15, 2006
  • Lost Egypt: Images of a Vanished Past
    July 11, 2003–September 2005
  • Angle of Repose: Four American Photographers in Egypt
    October 23, 2001–January 27, 2002
  • Treasures of the Royal Tombs of UR
    October 21, 2000–January 21, 2001
  • Faces of Ancient Egypt
    10 September, 1996–9 March, 1997 at the Smart Museum
  • Sports and Games in the Ancient Near East
    May 31, 1994–September 18, 1994
  • Vanished Kingdoms of the Nile
    February 4–December 31, 1992
  • Sifting the Sands of Time: The Oriental Institute and the Ancient Near East
    October 6, 1991–December 31, 1999
  • Nubia—Its Glory and its People
    February 1–28, 1987; Tower of Memories, Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago
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