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The main theme of the VII International Conference in 2016, as it was announced in the Call for papers, focuses on the ‘art object’, from the moment of its creation till the time of its actual presentation to the viewers. The idea is that the life of an artefact starts at the moment of its creation, but its real discovery happens at the time of its archaeological acquisition and of its presentation to the public, usually in a museum exhibition. Artifacts — objects shaped by human workmanship and presenting a historical or archaeological interest — usually have their own ‘cycle of life’ which is not merely linear. On the contrary, the very personal ‘biography’ of each artifact is multileveled and presents a development in the course of time, from the moment of its construction until its presentation (the most recent one, but not necessarily the last) in a museum, bearing numerous and varied information, values, and meanings. In every step of this long life, the artifact may acquire different uses and meanings, according to the corresponding historical, social, and ideological context [33; 34; 23, pp. 56–57]. This paper focuses on several examples of the multilayered and fascinating procedure of ‘transforming’ the excavation finds into museum exhibits. All the case-studies presented here have been selected among the different indoor and outdoor exhibitions of the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens, Greece1.

Transforming Excavation Finds into Museum Exhibits: Examples from the Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens