The Making of the British Museum’s Sicily Exhibition, lecture by Dirk Booms (The British Museum), Birkbeck, University of London, June 1, 2016, 6:00pm

Dr Dirk Booms, curator in the Department of Greek and Roman, British Museum, in conversation with Dr Caroline Goodson, Senior Lecturer of Medieval History and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London.

The co-curator of the current landmark exhibition, Sicily: Culture and Conquest, on view at The British Museum through August 14, 2016, will discuss the process of developing this exhibition, from first concept to final installation. The exhibition covers the history of the Mediterranean island from the ancient Greeks to the Muslim Conquest and ends with the multiculturalism of Norman Sicily. It charts relationships between the island’s inhabitants and their conquerors over 1500 years. Booms’ work on this exhibition has taken him into museum basements all over the world to find the right objects to bring to London.