A busy week at the Museum preparing materials for forthcoming events: Bug Day tomorrow (June 21st, 11am-4pm), where I will be showing ancient Egyptian bug related artefacts (scorpion amulets, faience fly necklaces, relief carvings of bees etc.) next to the real thing; the Ancient Egypt Summer School, taking place at the KNH-Centre for Biomedical Egyptology [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Curator’s diary, Friday 20th June
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June 16th – Covering the mummies, update
Posted in Egyptian mummies on June 16, 2008 | 7 Comments »
The Human Remains panel met last week and recommended a number of proposals for the display of the Egyptian human remains. The recommendations will be tabled at the next Museum management (Strategy) meeting for approval. The proposal is that the human remains on the gallery will be displayed in a number of different ways (covered, partially covered, [...]
The Bedouin Jerry Can Band at the Manchester Museum
Posted in Egypt events at the Manchester Museum on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Bedouin Jerry Can Band (http://www.jerrycanband.com/) performed in front of the Manchester Museum on Monday this week (9th June), in glorious sunshine. As you can see from the photos, they brought a splash of Egyptian colour to Manchester.
Covering the mummies – curator’s update, Monday 2nd June 2008
Posted in Egyptian mummies on June 2, 2008 | 19 Comments »
The Director of the Manchester Museum, Nick Merriman, at the staff Director’s Update in the Museum this morning, reported on the ongoing response to the covering of the three unwrapped or partially unwrapped mummies on the gallery. The response to the covering, on the gallery comment cards, in the media and on this blog, will [...]
