Egypt
The Bolton News
- Quest For Immortality At Bolton Museum Wins Award
Bolton News Bolton Museum has scooped a prestigious national award for its touring Egyptology exhibition, currently wowing visitors in the Far East. “Quest For Immortality: The Bolton Museum Collection”, which received its one millionth visitor earlier...
- Exhibition: Question For Immortality Opens In Taiwan
Focus Taiwan History buffs in Taiwan will not need to travel to Europe or Egypt to get a peak into the life and culture of ancient Egypt when an exhibition featuring more than 200 artifacts, including an unwrapped mummy, opens in Taipei June 12. Titled...
- Duped Council Hopes To Display Fake Statue
The Independent, UK (Jeananne Craig) A council which was duped into paying £440,000 for a fake Egyptian statuette said today that it hopes to put the sculpture on display in a local museum. Bolton Council bought the 20-inch Princess Amarna in 2003 after...
- Amarna Fake Statuette May Go Back On Dispaly
The Bolton News The Amarna Princess, Bolton Museum's statuette at the centre of a forgery scam, could be exhibited in the town again. Conman Shaun Greenhalgh and his parents fooled experts at the British Museum, Christie's and the Egyptology department...
- Exhibition: Ancient Egyptian Textiles And Modern Art
http://tinyurl.com/ytbaj2 (theboltonnews.co.uk) "Ancient Egypt will come alive this week in a new exhibition at Bolton Museum. From a Modern Land. Ancient Egyptian textiles: Contemporary Paintings will include ancient artefacts alongside contemporary...
Egypt
Bolton’s Egyptian artefacts to star in China and Taiwan exhibitions
The Bolton News
The artefacts are part of a touring exhibition, to be called Quest for Immortality — The Bolton Museum Collection, which will tour China and Taiwan for up to two years.
As revealed last November, Denmarkbased, United Exhibits Group (UEG), contacted the council to ask if it could borrow some of the 1,500-strong Egyptology collection.
Egyptology expert Nicholas Reeves, who formerly worked at the British Museum and is currently a fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, was instrumental in pointing UEG in Bolton’s direction.
- Quest For Immortality At Bolton Museum Wins Award
Bolton News Bolton Museum has scooped a prestigious national award for its touring Egyptology exhibition, currently wowing visitors in the Far East. “Quest For Immortality: The Bolton Museum Collection”, which received its one millionth visitor earlier...
- Exhibition: Question For Immortality Opens In Taiwan
Focus Taiwan History buffs in Taiwan will not need to travel to Europe or Egypt to get a peak into the life and culture of ancient Egypt when an exhibition featuring more than 200 artifacts, including an unwrapped mummy, opens in Taipei June 12. Titled...
- Duped Council Hopes To Display Fake Statue
The Independent, UK (Jeananne Craig) A council which was duped into paying £440,000 for a fake Egyptian statuette said today that it hopes to put the sculpture on display in a local museum. Bolton Council bought the 20-inch Princess Amarna in 2003 after...
- Amarna Fake Statuette May Go Back On Dispaly
The Bolton News The Amarna Princess, Bolton Museum's statuette at the centre of a forgery scam, could be exhibited in the town again. Conman Shaun Greenhalgh and his parents fooled experts at the British Museum, Christie's and the Egyptology department...
- Exhibition: Ancient Egyptian Textiles And Modern Art
http://tinyurl.com/ytbaj2 (theboltonnews.co.uk) "Ancient Egypt will come alive this week in a new exhibition at Bolton Museum. From a Modern Land. Ancient Egyptian textiles: Contemporary Paintings will include ancient artefacts alongside contemporary...