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- 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...
- Feature: A History Of The World In 100 Objects
Radio Times Includes a number of ancient Egyptian items. In what marks a unique public service partnership, the BBC is joining forces with the British Museum to tell humankind's story through the things we have made, from the Mummy of Hornedjitef...
- 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,...
- Egypt Museum Gets Own Nile
ANSA A virtual recreation of the River Nile will soon greet visitors arriving at Turin's world-renowned Egyptian Museum as part of a sweeping makeover announced on Monday. The virtual waters will flow alongside the escalator leading up to the museum,...
- Bowers Unwraps A New Mummy Exhibit
http://horus.vcsa.uci.edu/article.php?id=4063"Hailing from the deserts of Egypt, across the Atlantic Ocean, and now settled snugly for a limited time in Orange County, comes the Bowers Museum’s Mummies: Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt … Treasures...
Egypt
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.
Demand easily outstripped the museum's capacity for its exhibitions on Persia and Michelangelo last year.
"For the Michelangelo we could have had three times as many visitors if we'd had space," said Neil MacGregor, the director of the museum. The museum regularly stayed open until midnight during the event. Despite the popularity of both shows, some visitors complained that the space was cramped and inadequate. "It is very limiting for sculpture, and for large crowds," said Mr MacGregor.
- 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...
- Feature: A History Of The World In 100 Objects
Radio Times Includes a number of ancient Egyptian items. In what marks a unique public service partnership, the BBC is joining forces with the British Museum to tell humankind's story through the things we have made, from the Mummy of Hornedjitef...
- 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,...
- Egypt Museum Gets Own Nile
ANSA A virtual recreation of the River Nile will soon greet visitors arriving at Turin's world-renowned Egyptian Museum as part of a sweeping makeover announced on Monday. The virtual waters will flow alongside the escalator leading up to the museum,...
- Bowers Unwraps A New Mummy Exhibit
http://horus.vcsa.uci.edu/article.php?id=4063"Hailing from the deserts of Egypt, across the Atlantic Ocean, and now settled snugly for a limited time in Orange County, comes the Bowers Museum’s Mummies: Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt … Treasures...