Egypt
Creative Spaces
- Egyptian Museum - A Modern Museum For An Ancient Nation
DP New - Jaddaliya (Mohamed al-Shahed) With the French Revolution came the first truly public museum in the world, the Louvre that opened its doors in 1793. Private collections owned by wealthy individuals were made accessible to the middle and upper...
- The Case Against The Grand Egyptian Museum
Jadaliyya (Mohamed Elshahed) A Modern Museum for an Ancient Nation? With the French Revolution came the first truly public museum in the world, the Louvre, which opened its doors in 1793. Private collections owned by wealthy individuals were made accessible...
- Tutankhamun Arrives At Melbourne, Australia
Herald Sun (Simon Plant) Right now, it's as barren as an Egyptian desert. But as Mark Lach traverses the wide open spaces of Melbourne Museum's touring exhibition hall, another world looms before him like a mirage. A world of giant chambers where...
- Exhibition: Journey Through The Afterlife
Al Ahram Weekly (David Tresilian) As anyone who has visited its ancient Egyptian galleries will know, London's British Museum has one of the world's most important collections of ancient Egyptian artifacts, including the famous Rosetta Stone,...
- New Galleries At Cleveland Museum Of Art
Art Daily After a five-year hiatus, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s (CMA) collections from the ancient Near East, Greece, Rome, Egypt and Africa, as well as works from Late Antiquity, the Byzantine Empire and the European Middle Ages, will return to public...
Egypt
Creative Spaces
Creative SpacesThanks to Tom Gray for letting me know about the new Creative Spaces venture. Tom is working with the British Museum and 8 other major British galleries and museums on a new social media project called Creative Spaces.
Creative Spaces throws open the collections of: The Royal Armouries, The V&A, The Imperial War Museum, British Museum, Tate, National Portrait Gallery, Natural History Museum, Sir John Soane’s Museum and The Wallace Collection. Obviously the British Museum is going to be of most interest to Egyptology enthusiasts but I'm sure that there are people who read the blog who, like me, will also be interested in the other collections.
The site allows you to search all the collections at once, tag and store items in notebooks and groups, and upload your own images, videos and notes to share creative inspiration with others - effectively creating your own collection from some of the world's greatest museum collections.
The site is still in beta, but you can find it at the above address.
This is a nonprofit, public sector project, and it’s the first time that national museums have collaborated in this way.
As I said on a recent post, social networking is not my thing but this looks like a good idea and if anyone has anything to report about their experiences please post your comments in reply to this post so that I can let Tom know.
Creative Spaces throws open the collections of: The Royal Armouries, The V&A, The Imperial War Museum, British Museum, Tate, National Portrait Gallery, Natural History Museum, Sir John Soane’s Museum and The Wallace Collection. Obviously the British Museum is going to be of most interest to Egyptology enthusiasts but I'm sure that there are people who read the blog who, like me, will also be interested in the other collections.
The site allows you to search all the collections at once, tag and store items in notebooks and groups, and upload your own images, videos and notes to share creative inspiration with others - effectively creating your own collection from some of the world's greatest museum collections.
The site is still in beta, but you can find it at the above address.
This is a nonprofit, public sector project, and it’s the first time that national museums have collaborated in this way.
As I said on a recent post, social networking is not my thing but this looks like a good idea and if anyone has anything to report about their experiences please post your comments in reply to this post so that I can let Tom know.
- Egyptian Museum - A Modern Museum For An Ancient Nation
DP New - Jaddaliya (Mohamed al-Shahed) With the French Revolution came the first truly public museum in the world, the Louvre that opened its doors in 1793. Private collections owned by wealthy individuals were made accessible to the middle and upper...
- The Case Against The Grand Egyptian Museum
Jadaliyya (Mohamed Elshahed) A Modern Museum for an Ancient Nation? With the French Revolution came the first truly public museum in the world, the Louvre, which opened its doors in 1793. Private collections owned by wealthy individuals were made accessible...
- Tutankhamun Arrives At Melbourne, Australia
Herald Sun (Simon Plant) Right now, it's as barren as an Egyptian desert. But as Mark Lach traverses the wide open spaces of Melbourne Museum's touring exhibition hall, another world looms before him like a mirage. A world of giant chambers where...
- Exhibition: Journey Through The Afterlife
Al Ahram Weekly (David Tresilian) As anyone who has visited its ancient Egyptian galleries will know, London's British Museum has one of the world's most important collections of ancient Egyptian artifacts, including the famous Rosetta Stone,...
- New Galleries At Cleveland Museum Of Art
Art Daily After a five-year hiatus, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s (CMA) collections from the ancient Near East, Greece, Rome, Egypt and Africa, as well as works from Late Antiquity, the Byzantine Empire and the European Middle Ages, will return to public...