Past Exhibitions
Special Exhibit Gallery
Bestiary of Ancient Nubia
April 16–August 16, 2026
Special Exhibit Gallery
Megiddo: A City Unearthed, A Past Imagined
September 18, 2025–March 15, 2026
Special Exhibit Gallery
Staging the East: Orientalist Photography in Chicago Collections
April 17–August 17, 2025
Special Exhibit Gallery
Chicago on the Nile: 100 Years of the Epigraphic Survey in Egypt
September 17, 2024–March 23, 2025
Special Exhibit Gallery
Pioneers of the Sky: Aerial Archaeology and the Black Desert
September 18, 2025–March 15, 2026
Special Exhibit Gallery
Back to School in Babylonia
September 21, 2023–March 25, 2024
Special Exhibit Gallery
Artifacts Also Die
April 5–August 27, 2023
Special Exhibit Gallery
Making Sense of Marbles: Roman Sculpture at the OI
September 15, 2022–March 12, 2023
Special Exhibit Gallery
Joseph Lindon Smith: The Persepolis Paintings
January 27–August 28, 2022
Special Exhibit Gallery
Antoin Sevruguin: Past and Present
April 1–December 23, 2021
Special Exhibit Gallery
The First 100 Years: Anatolian Studies in Chicago
September 15, 2022–March 12, 2023
Special Exhibit Gallery
Book of the Dead: Becoming God in Ancient Egypt
October 3, 2017–March 31, 2018
Lower Level
Drones over the Desert: Archaeology and Aerial Photography
November 22, 2016–September 10, 2017
Special Exhibit Gallery
Persepolis: Images of an Empire
October 13, 2015–September 3, 2017
Special Exhibit Gallery
A Threatened Heritage
March 21, 2015–December 18, 2016
Lower Level
Don't Take My Stuff. Tell My Story.
May 1, 2016–November 1, 2016
Lower Level
Our Work: Modern Jobs - Ancient Origins
August 28, 2014–Apri 24, 2016
Special Exhibit Gallery
A Cosmopolitan City: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Old Cairo
February 17–September 13, 2015
Museum Lobby
Cairo in Chicago
April 2–September 13, 2015
Special Exhibit Gallery
In Remembrance of Me: Feasting with the Dead in the Ancient Middle East
April 8, 2014–January 4, 2015
Persian Gallery
Silk Road and Indian Ocean Traders: Connecting China and the Middle East
February 18–October 19, 2014
Past Exhibition Inquiries
Webpages for past exhibitions are being updated and are temporarily unavailable. For information about or content from past exhibitions, please contact Kiersten Neumann.