Leiden is a university town in the Netherlands. It is also home to the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities. Habitation at Leiden stretches back to prehistoric times. Archaeologists have also unearthed the remains of a Roman fort (castellum), Matilo or Matilone.
Gods of Egypt in Leiden
Review of a new exhibition
A new exhibition about the Egyptian deities in the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden is interesting, but workmanlike.
Archaeological Park Matilo
Matilo or Matilone was a Roman castellum (fort) in what is now Leiden. Today, the site is an archaeological park.
Casa Romana
A temporary exhibition in Leiden
The new Leiden exhibition Casa Romana focuses on everyday life inside a townhouse of a wealthy Roman family in the first century AD.
Swords in Leiden
A new temporary exhibition in Leiden demonstrates just how useful it can be to use a question-driven approach to exhibition design.
Castellum Ockenburg
A model of the Roman castellum Ockenburg. This small fort, built on the coast near modern The Hagua between ca. AD 150 and 180, probably housed cavalry. It was part of the Roman coastal defences in what are today the Netherlands. The model was made by KOBALT museale diensten; the photo was taken at the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden.
Far Cry Primal
Added VALUE
VALUE, a research group in Leiden, organized an afternoon to play and talk about Far Cry Primal.
The purpose of an archaeological museum
An archaeological museum shouldn’t be about the past; it should be about archaeology as a discipline.
Are museums just collections of things?
Public puzzlement over an exhibit at the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden leads me to be invited to another exhibition in Amsterdam.