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Special Exhibitions at Joslyn

Joslyn Art Museum hosts a selection of temporary special exhibitions annually. These feature works from other museums, institutions, and private collections worldwide, or represent an aspect of Joslyn's own permanent collection. Special exhibitions are limited-time engagements and are most often free with regular Museum admission (exhibitions with an additional entrance fee are noted).

What's Pictured: (Above Detail) Sunk Relief of Queen Neferu, Middle Kingdom, reign of Mentuhotep II, Dynasty 11, ca. 2008 B.C.–1957 B.C., limestone, painted, Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, on view in the special exhibition To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum, February 11–June 3, 2012.

Below are exhibitions currently on view:

All the World's a Stage: Anita Lobel 4/14/2012 - 7/1/2012 Left: Toads and Diamonds, © 1996, Anita Lobel Anita Lobel's name is synonymous with the best in children's literature. Since the 1960s she has created many children's classics and received a Caldecott Honor for her illustrations in On Market Street. MORE DETAILS
To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum 2/11/2012 - 6/3/2012 Left: Mummy Cartonnage of a Woman, Roman Period, first century CE, linen, gilded gesso, glass, and faience, Collection of Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund Encompassing more than 100 objects drawn from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-renowned holdings of ancient Egyptian art, including some of the greatest masterworks of the Egyptian artistic heritage, To Live Forever explores the Egyptians’ beliefs about life, death, and the afterlife; the process of mummification; the conduct of a funeral; and the different types of tombs—answering questions at the core of the public’s fascination with ancient Egypt. To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum has been organized by the Brooklyn Museum.

4/14/2012 - 7/1/2012

Left: Toads and Diamonds, © 1996, Anita Lobel

Anita Lobel's name is synonymous with the best in children's literature. Since the 1960s she has created many children's classics and received a Caldecott Honor for her illustrations in On Market Street.

MORE DETAILS

2/11/2012 - 6/3/2012

Left: Mummy Cartonnage of a Woman, Roman Period, first century CE, linen, gilded gesso, glass, and faience, Collection of Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund

Encompassing more than 100 objects drawn from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-renowned holdings of ancient Egyptian art, including some of the greatest masterworks of the Egyptian artistic heritage, To Live Forever explores the Egyptians’ beliefs about life, death, and the afterlife; the process of mummification; the conduct of a funeral; and the different types of tombs—answering questions at the core of the public’s fascination with ancient Egypt.

To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum has been organized by the Brooklyn Museum.