Abbey Museum Friends Presentation

Commencing with some Phoenician objects in the Abbey’s collection, this talk will share images of Phoenician material culture and sites gathered in travels along their ancient trading routes around the Mediterranean.Why not come a little earlier and visit the Museum to see the collections of coins, sculpture, glass, stained glass, ceramics, carvings, lacquerware, prehistoric stone […]

In 55 BCE, Roman statesman and general Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey) dedicated Rome’s first permanent theatre on the Campus Martius. The theatre was part of a massive, monumental project which included a Temple of Venus, a senate house, and a large portico with gardens and colonnades, filled with statues and artworks, for the enjoyment of […]

Author Rosalie Gilbert presents an enlightening exploration into the world of medieval women: who were they and what did they do? Single women were a part of society in the Middle Ages, just as they are today, but you'd be forgiven for thinking that their lives were small and insignificant since they were often only […]