Join the OI as we explore some of the United States most important collections and special exhibits. These short tours are ideal for a quick getaway and provide our out-of-Chicago members a chance to experience the OI in their own backyard.

This January, 2024, we travel to Los Angels and go behind the scenes at the Getty Villa to explore their conservation lab and the newest Book of the Dead special exhibition. For trip information, please email: 
ISAC-membership@uchicago.edu

Upcoming tours will be announced soon… please do check back!

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Previous Tours

Mesopotamia Speaks: Yale and The Babylonian Collection
August, 2019

Join Susanne Paulus, assistant professor of Assyriology at the OI, as she explores the Yale Babylonian Collection and the special exhibit, Mesopotamia Speaks. This tour includes a private tour of the special exhibit at the Peabody Museum with Susanne Paulus and Yale University faculty, a private visit to the Yale Babylonian Collection at the Sterling Memorial Library, a visit to the Yale Art Gallery, and dinner in New Haven with Susanne Paulus. 


Yale and Dura Europos
May, 2017

Dura Europos Discovery Tour
Led by Tasha Vorderstrasse, Research Associate, Oriental Institute, PhD'04