Egypt
Berkeleyside (Lance Knobel)
- New Director Wants To Open Museum's Trove
The Bay Citizen (Patrick Dillon) Not about Egypt exclusively, but about a museum which includes an Egyptian collection. An interesting insight into museum management, something I've always thought of as something of a thankless task due to the challenges...
- Exhibition: Hearst Museum Offers Media Preview
UC Berkeley News A media preview of “The Conservator’s Art: Preserving Egypt’s Past,” a new exhibit opening Thursday, April 29, at the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. The exhibit features...
- Crocodile Mummies Scanned At Stanford
Scope (Lia Steakley) With photos. Conservators at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum at UC Berkeley are in the midst of reviewing CT images of a pair of crocodile mummies, which were scanned at Stanford last week. The crocodiles, a wrapped mummy with a painted...
- Exhibition: Objects For Eternity
http://cf.uba.uva.nl/apm/exhibitions.htmlA new exhibition, Objects for Eternity, Egyptian treasures from Antiquity, is opening today at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam (Netherlands), with items from the collection of Dutch collector W. Arnold Meijer:...
- Egyptian Papyri Arrive On Campus
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/11/01_papyri.shtml A rather nice piece from UC Berkeley looking at the arrival of a set of Reisner's Middle Kingdom papyri at Berkeley. The article gives details about the content of the papyri, Reisner's...
Egypt
Conserving Egypt’s past at the Hearst
Berkeleyside (Lance Knobel)
I’ve always found small exhibitions far better experiences than blockbusters. You generally don’t need to jostle with the crowds and you can concentrate on understanding a few objects, rather than be overwhelmed by hundreds.
The Hearst Museum of Anthropology on the UC Berkeley campus offers just such a treat with The Conservator’s Art: Preserving Egypt’s Past, which opens today and runs until spring next year. It shows 65 objects from the 17,000 ancient Egyptian items in its collection (a small fraction of the over 4 million objects in total, scattered over four buildings in Berkeley and Richmond). It’s also, as the title makes clear, an introduction to the meticulous work of conservators with ancient treasures.
- New Director Wants To Open Museum's Trove
The Bay Citizen (Patrick Dillon) Not about Egypt exclusively, but about a museum which includes an Egyptian collection. An interesting insight into museum management, something I've always thought of as something of a thankless task due to the challenges...
- Exhibition: Hearst Museum Offers Media Preview
UC Berkeley News A media preview of “The Conservator’s Art: Preserving Egypt’s Past,” a new exhibit opening Thursday, April 29, at the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. The exhibit features...
- Crocodile Mummies Scanned At Stanford
Scope (Lia Steakley) With photos. Conservators at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum at UC Berkeley are in the midst of reviewing CT images of a pair of crocodile mummies, which were scanned at Stanford last week. The crocodiles, a wrapped mummy with a painted...
- Exhibition: Objects For Eternity
http://cf.uba.uva.nl/apm/exhibitions.htmlA new exhibition, Objects for Eternity, Egyptian treasures from Antiquity, is opening today at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam (Netherlands), with items from the collection of Dutch collector W. Arnold Meijer:...
- Egyptian Papyri Arrive On Campus
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/11/01_papyri.shtml A rather nice piece from UC Berkeley looking at the arrival of a set of Reisner's Middle Kingdom papyri at Berkeley. The article gives details about the content of the papyri, Reisner's...