Egypt
The Independent, UK (Tiffany Jenkins)
- More Re Manchester Museum Survey
Manchester Evening News (Ben Rooth) A MUSEUM is asking visitors whether they want an important collection of mummies to be covered up or left as they were originally intended. The initiative is part of an on-going consultation at Manchester Museum to...
- More Re Manchester Museum Decision To Cover Mummies
Egypt at the Manchester Museum A new post on the Manchester Museum weblog has provided an update about the next steps that the museum's management are planning to take: The Director of the Manchester Museum, Nick Merriman, at the staff Director’s...
- More Responses To Covering Of Mummies In The Uk
Inquirer.net It is interesting that Hawass takes this line because Egypt's own Royal Mummy room at the Cairo museum in Tahrir Square lines up the royal mummies like sardines in glass boxes. Their bodies are covered but their faces and occasionally...
- More Re Decision To Cover Manchester Mummies
The decision by Manchester Museum to cover the ancient Egyptian mummies that it has on display has now come to the attention of the UK's national media. Here are a few of the reports that have come out. BBC News On its website, the museum said the...
- More Re The Covering Of The Manchester Mummies
Thanks to Bob Partridge, Editor of Ancient Egypt magazine for his permission to publish his email and a copy of his letter, which was sent yesterday to a wide distribution list. Dear fellow ancient Egypt enthusuiasts, This email is for those who either...
Egypt
Ideological concealment of mummies
The Independent, UK (Tiffany Jenkins)
Egyptian mummies used to be among the most popular displays in British museum collections. But their days as a visitor attraction may be numbered. Increasingly they are being secreted away by curators, hidden away from the public without consultation.
In the coming year, Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery will publish its first policy specifically on the use and display of human remains. It is clear from the draft that staff are increasingly sensitive about exhibits of ancient bodies and skeletons. Recommendations include erecting signs to "alert" visitors that such material is on display – and reconsidering whether to show it at all.
Already the museum has dramatically altered what is on display. It used to present its celebrated collection of Egyptian mummies in open sarcophagi, but now keeps the lids semi-closed because, curators say, that is more respectful. Visitors are only permitted to see photographs of unwrapped mummies and they have to positively opt in to this by switching on the light.
- More Re Manchester Museum Survey
Manchester Evening News (Ben Rooth) A MUSEUM is asking visitors whether they want an important collection of mummies to be covered up or left as they were originally intended. The initiative is part of an on-going consultation at Manchester Museum to...
- More Re Manchester Museum Decision To Cover Mummies
Egypt at the Manchester Museum A new post on the Manchester Museum weblog has provided an update about the next steps that the museum's management are planning to take: The Director of the Manchester Museum, Nick Merriman, at the staff Director’s...
- More Responses To Covering Of Mummies In The Uk
Inquirer.net It is interesting that Hawass takes this line because Egypt's own Royal Mummy room at the Cairo museum in Tahrir Square lines up the royal mummies like sardines in glass boxes. Their bodies are covered but their faces and occasionally...
- More Re Decision To Cover Manchester Mummies
The decision by Manchester Museum to cover the ancient Egyptian mummies that it has on display has now come to the attention of the UK's national media. Here are a few of the reports that have come out. BBC News On its website, the museum said the...
- More Re The Covering Of The Manchester Mummies
Thanks to Bob Partridge, Editor of Ancient Egypt magazine for his permission to publish his email and a copy of his letter, which was sent yesterday to a wide distribution list. Dear fellow ancient Egypt enthusuiasts, This email is for those who either...