Dirk Booms

Dirk Booms and Peter John Higgs curated the 2016 British Museum exhibition, Sicily: culture and conquest. Dirk Booms received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, working on the Roman emperors' self-representation in the art and architecture of their villas. He has lectured at Cambridge and Oxford, and was Roman curator at the British Museum from 2012 to 2017.

Dirk Booms and Peter John Higgs curated the 2016 British Museum exhibition, Sicily: culture and conquest. Dirk Booms received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, working on the Roman emperors' self-representation in the art and architecture of their villas. He has lectured at Cambridge and Oxford, and was Roman curator at the British Museum from 2012 to 2017. See less