Events Calendar

His Excellency Dr. Samir Al-Sumaida’ie, Ambassador, Republic of Iraq, is the afternoon's special guest,  joining Museum Director Richard Hodges and exhibition curators Richard Zettler and Holly Pittman at the 1:30 pm ribbon cutting ceremony to officially open Iraq's Ancient Past to the public.  Co-curator Richard Zettler offers a talk on Ur of the Chaldees: Inside Woolley’s Excavations at Abraham’s Birthplace at 1:45 pm.   Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture offers Middle Eastern music at 2:30 pm. Janet Monge, Acting Curator in charge, Physical Anthropology, with former graduate student Dr. Aubrey Baadsgaard and student Samantha Cox, talk about their new research presented in the exhibition with a 3:15 pm talk, Re-writing the Tale of Ur’s Sacrificial Dead.  Ongoing craft workshops invite families to create Queen Puabi-inspired jewelry, and masks inspired by the famous bull-headed lyre. Attendees can learn about Arabic writing at an ongoing workshop organized by Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture.