Egypt
- Exhibition: Pharaoh - King Of Egypt
Culture 24 (Nick Owen) With 2 lovely photographs. Exhibition: Pharaoh: King of Egypt, Great North Museum: Hancock until September 25 2011 The North East’s premier museum, Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle, is hosting the largest ever UK touring...
- New Egyptian Art In The Permanent Galleries Of The Carlos Museum
Michael C Carlos ENews, February 2009 In preparation for the new exhibition Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs the Carlos Museum’s Egyptian Galleries have seen the redesign of a number of cases and the installation of many new loans...
- Neil Macgregor's Plans For British Museum's Future
Times Online (Brian Appleyard) The fox knows many things; the hedgehog knows one big thing. Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, is a hedgehog. The one big thing he knows is what his museum is for: “What the collection is about is truth,...
- Why We Still Dig In Egypt - The Enduring Fascination Of Egypt
Times Online (Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum) The British Museum’s collections span almost every corner of the globe and every period of human history, but, for many, the images conjured up by the words “British Museum” are of mummies...
- More Re New British Museum Exhibition Zone
Guardian Unlimited The British Museum is planning to build a £100m complex to house its blockbuster shows. The new 1,000 sq metre space would enable more people to see the kind of popular large-scale exhibitions the museum has held in recent years....
Egypt
Gayer Anderson Cat heads to the Shetlands
The Guardian, UK (Maev Kennedy)
One of the best-loved objects in the vast British Museum collection, a small bronze cat with its tail sedately wrapped around its feet and wearing golden rings in its ears and nose, is off on a journey its creator could never have dreamed of in Egypt 2,500 years ago – to Lerwick in Shetland.
The cat is one of a series of spectacular artefacts that the museum is sending out on loan to regional museums.
The lucky recipients, many pummelled by local authority and other funding cuts, will not have to pay a penny towards their distinguished visitors. The British museum is funding the loans through £100,000 from the Art Fund museum prize, which it won last year for the phenomenally successful Radio 4 series and exhibition A History of the World in 100 Objects.
The museum's director, Neil MacGregor, said there were good geographical reasons for some of the loans: the 13,000-year-old carved ivory tusk of a swimming reindeer is going to Creswell Crags in Derbyshire, where ice age inhabitants were making art in the same period, and the Mildenhall Great Dish is going to Ipswich, near the site where it was excavated. But others had no justification other than sending something wonderful where it had never before been seen.
- Exhibition: Pharaoh - King Of Egypt
Culture 24 (Nick Owen) With 2 lovely photographs. Exhibition: Pharaoh: King of Egypt, Great North Museum: Hancock until September 25 2011 The North East’s premier museum, Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle, is hosting the largest ever UK touring...
- New Egyptian Art In The Permanent Galleries Of The Carlos Museum
Michael C Carlos ENews, February 2009 In preparation for the new exhibition Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs the Carlos Museum’s Egyptian Galleries have seen the redesign of a number of cases and the installation of many new loans...
- Neil Macgregor's Plans For British Museum's Future
Times Online (Brian Appleyard) The fox knows many things; the hedgehog knows one big thing. Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, is a hedgehog. The one big thing he knows is what his museum is for: “What the collection is about is truth,...
- Why We Still Dig In Egypt - The Enduring Fascination Of Egypt
Times Online (Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum) The British Museum’s collections span almost every corner of the globe and every period of human history, but, for many, the images conjured up by the words “British Museum” are of mummies...
- More Re New British Museum Exhibition Zone
Guardian Unlimited The British Museum is planning to build a £100m complex to house its blockbuster shows. The new 1,000 sq metre space would enable more people to see the kind of popular large-scale exhibitions the museum has held in recent years....