LABYRINTH EXHIBITION CURATOR'S TOUR JUNE 2023

PAST EVENT FOR MEMBERS

Tue 27 Jun, 4.45–6pm
Exhibition Galleries
Part of our Myth and Reality Season

Join Dr Andrew Shapland, Sir Arthur Evans Curator of Bronze Age and Classical Greece at the Ashmolean, in this guided tour of the Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth & Reality exhibition for Members.

The archaeological site of Knossos was famous in myth as the place where the Minotaur was imprisoned in a labyrinth, and in history as the centre of the Bronze Age Minoan civilisation, the home of the earliest farmers in Europe and a thriving Greek and Roman city.

Dr Shapland, curator of this major exhibition, will lead this tour.
 

The opening gallery scene inside the Labyrinth exhibition showing the striking white marble Minotaur statue

Inside the exhibition

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