The modern world is plagued with unprecedented levels of social, economic, and political inequalities. But these inequities did not happen overnight; in places like southeastern Europe they emerged over the course of thousands of years as the small egalitarian farming villages of the Neolithic gave way to some of the earliest hierarchical kingdoms in the Iron Age. This is the story that is told in the First Kings of Europe exhibition, an ambitious international collaboration between twenty-six museums in eleven countries in southeastern Europe. The exhibition, organized by the Field Museum of Natural History, is currently on display in Chicago before it travels to Ottawa, Canada, in early 2024. In this presentation, Bill Parkinson gives an overview of the exhibition he co-curates with his colleagues, Attila Gyucha, and discusses the challenges they faced during the process of putting it together over the last eight years.
An unprecedented and long-awaited international exhibition, titled First Kings of Europe had its opening at the end of March in the United States of America, at the famous Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, an exhibition in which Romania plays an important role:. This unprecedented cultural project, initiated 6 years ago by the American museum, presents outstanding pieces from the heritage of 26 museums from 11 countries in Southeast Europe, including Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Hungary and Romania. We spoke with museographer Corina Borș, coordinator of the exhibition on behalf of Romania, through the National History Museum of Romania, about this project, about its birth and the proposal of this vast exhibition. Corina Borș:
It is practically the second international exhibition in which the National History Museum of Romania has participated, in the United States and Canada. The prestigious Field Museum of Natural History in Chicag
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With more than 700 pieces from 26 different institutions in 11 countries, ‘First Kings of Europe’ details humanity’s journey from equality to hierarchy.