Egypt
The Bay Citizen (Patrick Dillon)
- Exhibition: The Conservator's Art
LA Times (Charles Burress) Berkeley's show at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology is free, small and devoid of crowds. But the key difference is a dual focus: on both rarely seen objects and "the conservator's art," the exacting craft...
- 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....
- Mask Of The Mummy
National Geographic Thanks to Tony Marson for this link. A five-photo slideshow with detailed captions looks specifically at ancient Egyptian mummified crocodiles. The photos are excellent. There's a real crocodile behind that mask, according to...
- 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...
- Penn Museum To Share Cultural Treasures Via Internet
Reuters Thanks to Rick Menges for kindly sendly me a link to his album of photographs from the Penn Museum collection at webshots.com. It's worth visiting! The University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, a national and...
Egypt
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 of using a collection, which is divorced from its contexts, to communicate in any meaningful way to the public.
Phoebe Hearst, the mining heiress and matriarch of the University of California, Berkeley, was not a woman of modest ambition, as her personal quest to create a world-class anthropology collection demonstrated.
Beginning in the 1890s, Hearst, the mother of William Randolph Hearst, commissioned large expeditions around the globe. . . . . .
Her goal was a museum to rival those at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, and by at least one standard she succeeded: the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at Berkeley now has some four million items.
What Hearst failed to anticipate, though, was that nearly all those objects would for more than half a century be largely inaccessible to all but a handful of scholars due to less-than-optimal facilities and the faculty’s tradition of viewing the collection primarily as a research tool.
That dual legacy — a brilliant collection but with a low public profile — is what Mari Lyn Salvador inherited when she took over as the museum’s director in December.
- Exhibition: The Conservator's Art
LA Times (Charles Burress) Berkeley's show at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology is free, small and devoid of crowds. But the key difference is a dual focus: on both rarely seen objects and "the conservator's art," the exacting craft...
- 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....
- Mask Of The Mummy
National Geographic Thanks to Tony Marson for this link. A five-photo slideshow with detailed captions looks specifically at ancient Egyptian mummified crocodiles. The photos are excellent. There's a real crocodile behind that mask, according to...
- 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...
- Penn Museum To Share Cultural Treasures Via Internet
Reuters Thanks to Rick Menges for kindly sendly me a link to his album of photographs from the Penn Museum collection at webshots.com. It's worth visiting! The University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, a national and...