Your University Museum

Our Museum of Ancient Civilizations is volunteer-operated and admission is free. Museum Studies students not only staff the Museum, but also produce all exhibitions and related educational and public programming. The Museum opens to the public in Humanities Room 510 every April and November only. Operating hours during public exhibitions are 11-4, Monday through Friday. Note: The April 2010 Exhibition has been cancelled due to budget cuts in the CSU system.

The Museum also houses an extensive antiquities collection, including: the Sutro Egyptian Collection, more than 1,000 artifacts from ancient Egypt spanning Pre-Dynastic to Roman times; the Lindgren Coin Collection, more than 500 Greek and Roman coins; the Rietz Collection of Ancient Food Technology, donated by the California Academy of Sciences; three Amarna period sculptures, donated by the Mansoor and Ward families; the Bourne Collection of Roman pottery from Tunisia; and on temporary loan, the de Bellis Collection of Etruscan bronze and ceramic artifacts. Access to the collections is by special arrangement only during the academic year (September through May).

All museum activities are supported by the Instructionally-Related Activities Fund, the Kaufmann-Museum Studies Lab Fund, and through proceeds raised from our in-house Museum Emporium.