Egypt
The Myers museum at Eton has done what is correct as would be expected from an institution of its standing
The issue is not with the correct actions of the Myers museum or any other institution in doing what is right but rather laws which take trivial objects and criminalizes the ownership of such.
It is one thing to see antiquities in books or museums but quite another thrill to own and appreciate them.
It is true that important objects representative of a peoples pride and achievement belong in museums but that much of what has been created in history would be better appreciated in the hands of the common people, as it is Mr Webb and Davey have left a legacy of dubious nature and a hundred years earlier and Eton would not have a collection of antiquities.
In the end prohibition does not work and objects forgotten in drawers do not teach.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/946/eg3.htm
- Exhibition: Eton College Objects At Jhu
The JHU Gazette With photo. A renowned collection of Egyptian decorative art from Eton College in Windsor, England, has arrived at The Johns Hopkins University for long-term research and display in the university’s Archaeological Museum. Glazed blue...
- Eton’s Egyptology Going To Birmingham (uk) And Baltimore (us)
The Art Newspaper (Martin Bailey) Eton College’s Egyptian antiquities have just gone on show at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham as part of a 15-year loan. “Sacred and Profane: Treasures of Ancient Egypt” is a temporary exhibition...
- Eton College Returns Artefacts To Egypt
The Art Newspaper Eton College, in the south of England, has returned more than 450 antiquities to Egypt, after it was realised that many had probably been illegally exported. Last month we reported that the main part of the school’s collection, bequeathed...
- Home Via Eton College
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) The story of the retrieval of the items began in 2006, when the family of a London-based Egyptologist, the late Ron Davey, gifted his collection to the Myers Museum at Eton College along with an assemblage of photographs,...
- The Eton College Handover
This is more on the Eton College return of 454 objects to Egypt that were donated to Eton by a collector in good faith. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=17432...
Egypt
On the Return from Eton of Trinkets
The Myers museum at Eton has done what is correct as would be expected from an institution of its standing
The issue is not with the correct actions of the Myers museum or any other institution in doing what is right but rather laws which take trivial objects and criminalizes the ownership of such.
It is one thing to see antiquities in books or museums but quite another thrill to own and appreciate them.
It is true that important objects representative of a peoples pride and achievement belong in museums but that much of what has been created in history would be better appreciated in the hands of the common people, as it is Mr Webb and Davey have left a legacy of dubious nature and a hundred years earlier and Eton would not have a collection of antiquities.
In the end prohibition does not work and objects forgotten in drawers do not teach.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/946/eg3.htm
- Exhibition: Eton College Objects At Jhu
The JHU Gazette With photo. A renowned collection of Egyptian decorative art from Eton College in Windsor, England, has arrived at The Johns Hopkins University for long-term research and display in the university’s Archaeological Museum. Glazed blue...
- Eton’s Egyptology Going To Birmingham (uk) And Baltimore (us)
The Art Newspaper (Martin Bailey) Eton College’s Egyptian antiquities have just gone on show at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham as part of a 15-year loan. “Sacred and Profane: Treasures of Ancient Egypt” is a temporary exhibition...
- Eton College Returns Artefacts To Egypt
The Art Newspaper Eton College, in the south of England, has returned more than 450 antiquities to Egypt, after it was realised that many had probably been illegally exported. Last month we reported that the main part of the school’s collection, bequeathed...
- Home Via Eton College
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) The story of the retrieval of the items began in 2006, when the family of a London-based Egyptologist, the late Ron Davey, gifted his collection to the Myers Museum at Eton College along with an assemblage of photographs,...
- The Eton College Handover
This is more on the Eton College return of 454 objects to Egypt that were donated to Eton by a collector in good faith. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=17432...