About the Exhibition

Spectacle in Antiquity and Beyond was co-curated by students enrolled in “ARCH 3320: Spectacle in Antiquity & Beyond,” during the 2020 spring term at Bowdoin College, under the direction of Prof. Ambra Spinelli, Classics Department. This online exhibition shares the work of Bowdoin students and faculty who have collaborated with staff at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum. This project highlights the important role of academic art museums to foster learning, research, and creativity among students. The Museum’s Zuckert Seminar Room provided a space for holding class visits, in which students studied the objects included in this exhibition over the course of the semester.

CURATORS: Mike Brown ’20, Ambra Spinelli, Brooke Wrubel ’21, and Benjamin Wu ’18

COLLABORATORS: Sean Burrus, Jim Higginbotham, Genevieve LeMoine, and Hannah Moore

Exhibition Design and Technology

This online exhibition was designed by David Francis in Bowdoin Academic Technology, in collaboration with staff at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum. It was created using the following technologies: cascade content mangaement system (CMS), HTML5/CSS, JavaScript, jQuery (JavaScript library), and Fancybox.

Acknowledgements

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art would like to thank the Wyvern Collection for generously loaning to the Museum objects from the medieval world, which has enriched student learning and offers extraordinary insights on artistic practices from these regions.