Een grens van steen (The Stone Frontier)
Op avontuur langs de Muur van Hadrianus (an adventurous journey along Hadrian's Wall)
28 april - 29 august 2010

Photos by Marian van de Veen-van Rijk and written by Herman Vuijsje

On Tuesday 27 April 2010 the Allard Pierson Museum opened the photo exhibition een grens van steen, op avontuur langs de Muur van Hadrianus (the stone frontier, an adventurous journey along Hadrian's Wall). At the same time the book of the same name was be presented, with photos by Marian van de Veen-van Rijk and text by Herman Vuijsje. The book and the photo exhibition, open until 29 August, take the visitor and the reader on an extraordinary journey along Hadrian's Wall, the most northerly border of the Roman Empire for nearly three centuries.
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Sail Rome! Ships and ports in the Roman period
25 june to 23 august 2010

To mark the nautical summer of 2010, which will feature Sail Amsterdam, the Allard Pierson Museum is staging the exhibition sail rome! ships and ports in the roman period. To be held from 25 June until 23 August, the exhibition will focus on merchant shipping in the time of the Roman emperors. Featuring maps, illustrations, models and original artefacts, Sail Rome! takes visitors on a playful journey around the ports and ships of the Roman world.
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Alexander's Legacy - Greeks in Egypt
17 september to 20 march 2011

The exhibition will show the impact Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) made on Egypt. He brought elements of western culture to the east and, conversely, elements from eastern culture to the west. Alexander's Legacy looks at this cross-pollination and cultural blending of peoples and cultures.

The exhibition's focus is on Egypt, because that is where Alexander's legacy left its clearest and most numerous traces. The fusion of centuries-old cultures known as Hellenism produced a renewed élan and gave a new impulse to art, technology and science. The Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt endured until 30 BC, when the last pharaoh of Egypt, the famous Cleopatra, lost her power to the Romans. Alexander's legacy, however, was not lost and made its mark on the Roman Empire and thereby on Europe.

Whatever Alexander's legacy may be: nobody can deny that Alexander the Great is an important and contentious figure in world history, who appeals to people's imaginations to this day.