International Lecture Series
Join us for the 42nd season of the Treasure Coast’s most celebrated arts and humanities lecture series. This series is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Ancient Egypt & the Napoleonic Era: Masterworks from the Dahesh Museum. The featured speakers will provide audiences with the multiple perspectives to help frame the themes of the exhibition. Patrons are invited to attend the lectures at the VBMA or stream them from the comfort of their home.
Patrons are invited to attend the lectures at the VBMA or stream them from the comfort of their home.
Presenting Sponsor: Harry and Virginia Van Wormer Lecture Fund
Supporting Sponsors: Kjestine and Peter Bijur, The FHL Foundation, Emily and Ned Sherwood, Caroline and Tommy Vandeventer
Patron Sponsors: Susan Bouma, Kenneth W. Cunningham, Jr. Endowment Fund, Carolyn and William Stutt Endowment for the International Lecture Series
Reception Sponsor: Wilmington Trust
Individual Lecture Pricing
Holmes Great Hall – SOLD OUT
Streaming or Leonhardt Auditorium Simulcast
$87 per person for VBMA members
$103 per person for non-members
Please call 772-231-0707 ext 116 for LA/Streaming tickets to 3/11 Lady Fiona Carnarvon
4/8 Bernard Fishman LA/Streaming
To register for any program, use the links provided, or call us at 772.231.0707 x 116
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All programs are subject to change.
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2024 International Lecture Series
Monday, April 8, 2024 at 4:30pm | Journey Up the Nile: The Victorian Grand Tour of Egypt in 3D
Bernard Fishman, Director of the Maine State Museum
Bernard Fishman, Director of the Maine State Museum and past Egyptologist for the University of Chicago, will give a unique visual tour of Egypt as it was known to Victorian travelers in the 1800s, when photography was new and the romance of seeing Egypt was a thrilling, exotic, dangerous, and entirely rare experience.
Using stereoviews, the most popular form of educational photography of the 19th century, Fishman will show, in modern three-dimensional projections, what bold Victorians with time and money saw when they took on the uncertainties and thrills of a trip up the Nile in the 1860s and ‘70s. You’ll learn about the costs, headaches and necessities of the trip, and about the rough but indolent life aboard a sailing dahabiyah. You’ll see Alexandria and Cairo before tourism made them unrecognizable. You’ll see the digging of the Suez Canal, the first archaeology in Egypt and the famous Find of the Royal Mummies, the ruins of Dendera, Karnak, Luxor, Abu Simbel, and other ancient sites, some no longer in existence, and all of them now forever changed. You’ll see what those intrepid explorers saw when they visited the Land of the Pharaohs 150 years ago!