![]() Access to the exhibition is via lift and the entire exhibition is wheelchair accessible. ![]() His archive at the Ashmolean has been central to our understanding of the site of Knossos, and many of his excavation plans, artworks and records will be on display alongside objects from the site.Ī RESTORATION (2016), an 18-minute, two-screen digital video and sound installation by Turner Prize winning artist Elizabeth Price, is shown in the third gallery. It will include over 100 objects which have never left Crete and Greece before, alongside discoveries from the Ashmolean's Sir Arthur Evans Archive and an exclusive experience of Knossos Palace from the acclaimed video game Assassin’s Creed Odyssey.Īrchaeologist Sir Arthur Evans led excavations at Knossos in the early 20th century, and would later re-imagine and partially restore the palace. This will be the first UK exhibition to focus on Knossos. The palace of Knossos, discovered and excavated over 100 years ago, was the centre of a Bronze Age civilisation of people we now call the Minoans, named after the legendary King Minos. Discover the palace of Knossos, and the search for the labyrinth, in this major exhibition in Oxford. ![]() ![]() A major exhibition open 10 Feb – 30 Jul 2023Īccording to legend, an elaborate labyrinth was built at Knossos on the island of Crete to hold a ferocious Minotaur. ![]()
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