Exhibitions
Free image downloads available at Walters Art Museum’s website
More than 10,000 items in the Walters Art Museum — about a third of the total collection — can now be viewed and downloaded online for free, without copyright restrictions at http://art.thewalters.org/. The museum’s collection is “basically public domain,” said Dylan Kinnett, manager of web and social media at the Walters. “Something like this would... »
Restored Egyptian Book of the Dead on display at the Brooklyn Museum
Following a three-year-long conservation project, the final section of the rare, thirty-five-centuries-old Egyptian Book of the Dead of the Goldworker of Amun, Sobekmose will go on long-term view on September 28. The papyrus is about twenty five feet long. In an unusual feature, it is inscribed on both sides. The Book of the Dead of... »
Tut show will stay in Australia an extra month
Welcoming up to 500,000 since it opened in April this year, the Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibition originally dated to leave early November, will stay the extra month down under before leaving for his permanent residence in the new Museum in Egypt. The exhibition shattered Melbourne Museum records before it opened... »
MFA refuses to return ancient bust to Egypt
The Egyptian government is demanding the return of the bust of Prince Ankhhaf from the Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. The precious 4,500-year-old statue, 20 inches tall, was not stolen. It was excavated by a team from the MFA, Harvard University, and Egypt in 1925. In 1927, the Egyptian government gave it to the MFA... »
Ashmolean Museum to open new Ancient Egypt and Nubia Gallery
The new Galleries of Ancient Egypt and Nubia (modern-day Sudan) will open on 26 November and feature the Ashmolean’s Egyptian collections and objects that have been in storage for decades. The £5 million project will more than double the number of mummies and coffins on display. It will feature new lighting, display cases and interpretation. The collections... »
First monumental statue of a Pharaoh showcased at the NY Met
A colossal statue of a pharaoh weighing more than nine tons is heading to the Met by ship from Germany. When it arrives in New York in the next 10 days, it will go on view in the museum’s Great Hall. The Egyptian Museum in Berlin owns the statue but is in the middle of... »
Egypt to recover King Tut’s objects from Metropolitan Museum
Nineteen artifacts taken from the tomb of the famed boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun will be returned to Egypt next week after more than half a century at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The trove includes a miniature bronze dog and a sphinx-shaped bracelet ornament. The move, scheduled for Tuesday, is the result of an agreement... »
Curiosities about Pharaoh: King of Egypt in Newcastle
The exhibition Pharaoh: King of Egypt, with over 130 works on loan from the British Museum, has just opened at the Great North Museum in Newcastle tomorrow. It’s free and on there until September 25th before going on tour to Dorchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Glasgow and Bristol over the next two years. One of the fascinating... »
Newcastle showcases Egyptian objects from the British Museum
The Great North Museum in Newcastle is playing host to the largest ever collection of ancient Egyptian artefacts ever to leave the British Museum. Pharaoh: King Of Egypt aims to debunk some of the myths surrounding the rulers of the African country and highlight how they lived their day to day lives. The exhibition is a... »
Leipzig University to keep Egyptian collection
The Jewish Claims Conference agreed to cede ownership of a collection of antiquities to the Leipzig museum that has housed them for 80 years, ending a dispute with the grandson of Georg Steindorff, the Nazi-era owner. After winning a 16-year legal battle against Leipzig University to secure the 163 artifacts, the Claims Conference said today... »
