News

SPRING 2010

Tell en-Nasbeh Database:

We are happy to announce the inauguration of the Tell en-Nasbeh Database Project, a digital catalog of all the artifacts, archives, and photographs from the Tell en-Nasbeh Collection at the Badè Museum. At its completion, this catalog will showcase all 5,800 items that users can search through and view. For now, we have a handful of items for you to explore as we test this new database. Go ahead and give it a try [Go to Database]! We would love your feedback.

 

The Original Sustainable Community:

The newest exhibit at the Badè Museum will open on January 28 and remain on view in the main gallery until March 19. "Tell en-Nasbeh: The Original Sustainable Community" is an exploration of the ancient Israelite inhabitants at Tell en-Nasbeh whose lives revolved around agricultural and animal husbandry, food and water storage, sharing communal activity spaces, and the reuse of as many products as possible. This exhibition is co-curated by Collections Manager Rebecca Hisiger and Assistant Curator Kiersten Neumann.

 

Multisensory Museum Experiences:

Badè Associate Curator Catherine Foster and 2009-2010 "Artist-in-Residence" Pamela Blotner will be representing the museum at an upcoming conference on sensory archaeology. The conference "Making Senses of the Past" will take place on March 26-27, 2010 at the Center for Archaeological Investigations at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

Foster and Blotner's paper entitled, "Beyond the Display Case: Creating a Multisensory Museum Experience" will draw from an exhibition concept now in preparation to provide examples of how a sensory exploration of ancient Israelite society can be exhibited through innovative use of archaeological materials.

 

FALL 2009

The Badè at UC:

A selection of ancient Mesopotamian artifacts from the Badè Museum Collection are currently on display at the Bernice Layne Brown Gallery in UC Berkeley's Doe Library. They will be available for viewing until February 26, 2010.

The exhibition, "Development of Written Language in the Ancient Near East," (exhibition website) explores the development of writing systems in the ancient Near East beginning with Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and Proto-Sinaitic through the Medieval Islamic period.

For more information, contact Shayee H.A. Khanaka, Librarian for Linguistics and Middle Eastern Studies, The Library #438 Doe Library, Berkeley, CA 94720, skhanaka@library.berkeley.edu, 510-768-7620

 

Artist-in-Residence Program:

The Museum is happy to host our first "Artist in Residence" Pamela Blotner who is working closely with our staff on a spring 2010 exhibition. This new annual program features a single artist who is invited to create a body of work inspired by the Badè archaeology collection. The guest artist gains access to the entire Badè collection, spends time with staff archaeologists and curators, and conducts research that will drive their final exhibition. This series helps to foster cross-disciplinary dialogue and brings to life significant artifacts from biblical times, placing them in a new contemporary context.