I’m back in the office after two weeks in Egypt taking a lecture tour round all the major sites. The group of 22 people, myself and my wonderful guide, Hesham, visited the sites at Luxor, Aswan, Abu Simbel and in and around Cairo. It was very hot indeed, hitting 42 degrees at Abu Simbel, but [...]
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Curator’s diary, Friday 6th November 2009
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Curator’s Diary, Wednesday 7th October 2009
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We hosted the Egypt in its African Context event at The Manchester Museum last weekend, 3-4
October 2009, and heard papers from scholars from the United States, Nigeria, Spain and the UK, discussing the African cultural aspects of ancient Egypt, with much hearty debate. The event included a wine reception and a screening of the documentary [...]
FIlming Asru at The Manchester Museum
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A German film crew have been in the Museum this week, filming the mummy of Asru with
Professor Rosalie David for a short film to be shown in October on German TV, and also to make footage for a longer film on phramacy and medicine in ancient Egypt, showing how the analysis of mummies can help [...]
Curator’s Diary, Friday 24th July, 2009
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Today is my last day in the office for three weeks – holiday time! It’s been a busy couple of weeks for visitors to the Egypt collections.
Last weekend, Dr Gerry Scott, the Director of the American Research Center in Egypt, visited The Manchester Museum with his wife, and Bob Partridge of the Manchester Ancient Egypt [...]
Curator’s Diary, Tuesday 7th July 2009
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We are hosting four curators on the British Museum’s
International Curatorial Training Programme for ten days in Manchester, half the time at the Museum with me and half at the time at the Whitworth Art Gallery. The curators are Joyce and Aba from Ghana and Hayam and Hesham from Egypt. They arrived on the train from [...]
Curator’s Diary, Friday 26th June 2009
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I have been away from the Museum a fair amount over the last few weeks so it has been good to spend the week catching up. One of my volunteers, Trillion, has
completed the reboxing and record photography of the glass collection that we moved into the Egyptology inorganic store from Archaeology a few weeks ago. [...]
Curator’s Diary, Monday 15th June 2009
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I spent a few days in Chicago last week, visiting the Oriental Institute Museum and the Field
Museum, both wonderful places. Emily Teeter very kindly took me though the galleries and stores of the Oriental Museum, and talked about the work of the Oriental Institute Museum. The newly redeveloped galleries (they were reopened in 2004) encompass [...]
Curator’s Diary, Monday 1st June 2009
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We have had to close the Death and the Afterlife Gallery for approximately two weeks. This
is because the replica of the Kyrenia ship, which hangs above the gallery, has become a little unsafe, and the decision has been taken to construct a scaffold to support the boat. The scaffold will go up next week, and [...]
Curator’s Diary, Thursday 28th May 2009
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I have just returned from a few days break in Malta, just lovely – the image shows part of Mnajdra temple, dating to a little before the Pyramids.
Before going away, we hosted a Study Day at the Museum, on Daily Life in ancient Egypt, with Joyce Tyldesley and Stephen Snape, which was very enjoyable – [...]
Curator’s Diary Wednesday 29th April 2009
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The two weeks since Easter have been taken up with a number of researchers from the UK and
abroad coming to look at material in the collection, including Dr Daniela Rosenow from the Tell Basta Project (Berlin), Melanie Pitkin (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) looking at First Intermediate Period material, and a group from Holland looking at [...]
