Egypt
Thanks to Jan Picton of the Friends of the Petrie Museum for the following information.
Tickets are £10 for Friends, UCL staff and students £5
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http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=18741"The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum will open the exhibit Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College, London on February...
Egypt
Petrie Museum celebrating Amelia Edwards
Thanks to Jan Picton of the Friends of the Petrie Museum for the following information.
On March 8th, International Woman's Day is celebrating its centenary, and the Petrie Museum is joining in by honouring Victorian writer Amelia Edwards, for without her, there may have never have been a 'Petrie Museum'.
Amelia Edwards was a novelist and travel writer, as well as an Egyptologist. After visiting for the first time in Egypt 1873, she wrote a vivid account of her adventure in A Thousand Miles up the Nile. She was the driving force behind the establishment of the Egypt Exploration Fund (now the EES) in 1882 to promote the scientific exploration of Egypt and its monuments.
With the help of Flinders Petrie, she started her own private Egyptology teaching collection. “I'm not Egyptologist, I'm not archaeologist, but I want my own bequest, my money to go somewhere, where I could have studied myself,” she said.
When she died in 1892, Amelia Edwards left her large collection to UCL, as at the time, it was the only university to award degrees to women.
There will be a performance in the museum of "Hers was the Earth . . . " a one-woman show written and performed by Kim Hicks about the extaordinary life of Amelia Edwards. Kim Hicks has enjoyed a wide-ranging career working for radio, TV, in film and on stage. She was inspired to bring Amelia Edwards back to life in celebration of her 175th birthday. The occasion will be marked by the installation of her bust and an image of her study (courtesy of Somerville College, Oxford), at the entrance to the museum.
Tickets are £10 for Friends, UCL staff and students £5
'International Women’s Day – the Petrie Museum honours Amelia Edwards' starts at 6 pm, on Tuesday March 8th 2011. Tickets are £10 for Friends and £12 for non-Friends. To book, and for more information, see the Petrie Museum website, or mail the PMF's secretary at janpicton [at] ijnet.demon.co.uk.
- Feature: The Petrie Museum's Amelia Edwards
Heritage Key (Sean Williams) With video and photographs. There have been many great women in the times and study of Ancient Egypt - Hatshepsut and Nefertiti are two great examples. Yet in the era of discovery; the time in which great explorers pioneered...
- Exhibition: Excavating Egypt Moves To Miami
Suite 101 (Stan Parchin) It is nice to see that Excavating Egypt is on its travels again. As usual Stan Parchin has produced a reliably clear and informative account, describing the background to the exhibition, an overview of the exhibits and the main...
- Exhibition: Review Of Excavating Egypt At The Columbia Museum Of Art
Free Times This exhibit promises to feed the fascination. Objects and artwork ranging in age from the early Egyptian history to the late Roman period provide a view into the lives of both royal and ordinary Egyptians. The exhibit is not simply an overview...
- Exhibition: Excavating Egypt
Santa Fe New Mexican (Paul Weideman) All regular visitors to the blog will know that I take up any opportunity that offers to plug the Petrie Museum of Archaeology in London (U.K.). However, today I actually have a good excuse - the Excavating Egypt exhibition...
- Petrie Collection Exhibition At Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=18741"The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum will open the exhibit Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College, London on February...