Exhibitions
Relicva mounts exhibitions the way a great gallery hangs its walls — slowly, argumentatively, and with an eye for the single object that changes the room. Each show gathers works from our own departments and partner archives into a sustained reading of the ancient world, free to enter and open at any hour.
On view now
All departments →Three exhibitions are currently installed across our virtual galleries. Each runs as a long-form essay in objects, with extended labels, comparative material and a curatorial throughline you can follow from the first vitrine to the last.
An exhibition is not a list of objects. It is a sentence, and every vitrine is a word.— Dr Helena Marsh, Head of Exhibitions
Past exhibitions
Read the Journal →Closed shows remain part of the museum. Their object lists, wall texts and accompanying essays stay online indefinitely, an archive you can revisit as readily as anything currently on the walls.
Bronze & Breath
Early Greek statuary at the threshold between rigour and life.
The Painted Symposium
Wine, song and image on the black- and red-figure cup.
Coins of the Diadochi
How Alexander's heirs minted legitimacy from a divided world.
Etruria Before Rome
A people read through mirrors, tombs and a language half-recovered.
Crowned with Leaves
The laurel, the wreath and the long iconography of victory.