Conferences and congresses | Rijksmuseum van Oudheden

Roman villa development in North-Western Europe | congress 2024

On Monday 27 May 2024 specialists from various disciplines, from the Netherlands and abroad, exchange knowledge about their most current research into Roman villas in Northwest Europe. The reason for this is the completion of the research project A Roman idyll, which aimed at the analysis of ancient excavations of Roman villas in Limburg.

Papyrus Curatorial and Conservation Meeting 2024

The Dutch National Museum of Antiquities is delighted to host the Seventh Papyrus Curatorial and Conservation Meeting. The two-day symposium on 6 and 7 June 2024 is open to museum professionals and scholars working with papyrus collections. Until 1 February 2024, we are inviting proposals for individual papers of 20 minutes or short communications of 10 minutes.

Fourth Dorestad congress 2024

From 24 to 27 January 2024, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden hosted the international congress on Dorestad, the Carolingian emporium in the present-day Netherlands. The quintennial Dorestad Congress brought together scholars to debate this site and its counterparts in Europe, as well as the material culture, urbanisation and environment of the Early Middle Ages.

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Third Dorestad congress 2019

In June 2019, the third Dorestad congress was organized at the National Museum of Antiquities, fifty years since the famous Dorestad brooch was found. The theme of the congress was ‘Dorestad and its networks’. It opened with a keynote lecture by prof.dr. Dagfinn Skre (University of Oslo).

Conference on gems 2016

On 3 and 4 November 2016 the National Museum of Antiquities hosted the conference ‘From cylinder seals to Lippert’s dactyliotheca’. International experts discussed engraved gems, from antiquity to the present day, with a particular focus on the people associated with these objects: the engravers, users, and re-users.

Second Dorestad congress 2014

In July 2014, the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden hosted the second Dorestad congress, five years after the first one. This congress accompanied the exhibition The Golden Middle Ages: The Netherlands in the Merovingian World, 400-700 AD.

First Dorestad congress 2009

In 2009, the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities hosted the first ever major exhibition on Dorestad, the Carolingian emporium on the northern frontier of the Empire, in the middle of the present-day Netherlands. It was entitled Dorestad: Medieval Metropolis. The exhibition was accompanied by a congress attended by international scholars on Dorestad.