‘Everything good we stood for’: exhibiting Greek art in World War II

Abstract

This article looks at the Fitzwilliam Museum’s 1944 Exhibition of Greek Art 3000 B.C.—A.D. 1938 in its wartime context. It explores why the British and Greek governments put resources into a museum exhibition at this time and how ancient Greece was used to define both British and Greek national identity and to express the nations’ shared values. It reconstructs the exhibition to give an in-depth account of how it achieved these goals and reveal the museum as a context where ancient art, ancient words, modern art and modern ideas intersect.

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