Welcome
The Kelsey Museum houses a collection of nearly 100,000 ancient and medieval objects from the civilizations of the Mediterranean and the Near East in the new state-of-the-art William E. Upjohn Exhibit Wing. Check our visitor information, and come get acquainted with our new installation. The Kelsey also offers special exhibitions that change periodically.

In addition to mounting exhibitions, the Museum sponsors research, educational programs for children, and fieldwork projects, as well as housing the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology.

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This Egyptian mummiform coffin (685-525 BC) of the priest Djehutymose is prominently displayed in the new Upjohn Wing. Learn more about this object.

Highlights
Now showing in the Edwin E. Meader and Mary U. Meader Special Exhibition Gallery:

Mary Upjohn Meader: Pioneering Adventures over Africa

This special exhibition features some of the dramatic aerial photographs that Mary Meader took over Egypt in 1937, before modern development had encroached on the pyramids and other ancient monuments. Also on view are family photographs of Ed and Mary Meader, the benefactors who so generously endowed the Kelsey's William E. Upjohn Exhibit Wing.

View a slide show of our November 1 opening gala. Photos by Mark Harvey.

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