Egypt
- Petrie Launches Egypt Partnership
Museums Association (Geraldine Kendall) The Petrie Museum holds over 80,000 Egyptian artefacts but can only display 10% of its collection. The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology has launched a collections partnership with the Egyptian Educational Centre...
- Exhibition: Excavating Egypt Opening In Kentucky
kentucky.com Excavating Egypt, opening Sunday at The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky, has been the arts equivalent of a Miley Cyrus concert tour as it has traveled to nine cities in three years. "It actually broke a lot of box office records...
- Lowe Art Museum Shows "excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries" From The Petrie Museum
Art Knowledge News Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology,University College, London, is on view at the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, from June 28th through November 2nd, 2008. The major traveling exhibition...
- Plans Unveiled For $550 Million Museum
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=116 "Plans have been announced for the $550 million Great Egyptian Museum, to be established near the Pyramids near Cairo. It will be among the world’s largest museums, and is by far the biggest to be...
- Petrie Museum Wins Top Award
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4538365.stm "A 100-year-old museum, home to one of the world's largest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology, has won an industry award. A panel of experts judged University College London's...
Egypt
Petrie Museum one of the most unusual in London
The Telegraph (John O' Ceallaigh)
It's not hyperbole to say that London is home to many of the world's best museums. Venues such as the British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Science Museum and Design Museum can justly lay claim to being the best in their field (and most of them are free too). But with so many world-famous museums dominating the itineraries of tourists and being a first port of call for locals with visitors in tow, it can be easy to overlook London's cornucopia of lesser-known and smaller-scale museums. With that in mind I've rounded up 50 of the best unusual London museums for people looking for alternatives to the big hitters. I've termed them 'unusual' not because their subject matter is quirky or weird - although, sometimes, that's definitely the case - but because they're not typically the usual choice for newer visitors to the city.
Petrie Museum, Euston
Found within UCL, the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology may be small but its collection of some 80,000 objects makes it one of the greatest museums of its type anywhere.
- Petrie Launches Egypt Partnership
Museums Association (Geraldine Kendall) The Petrie Museum holds over 80,000 Egyptian artefacts but can only display 10% of its collection. The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology has launched a collections partnership with the Egyptian Educational Centre...
- Exhibition: Excavating Egypt Opening In Kentucky
kentucky.com Excavating Egypt, opening Sunday at The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky, has been the arts equivalent of a Miley Cyrus concert tour as it has traveled to nine cities in three years. "It actually broke a lot of box office records...
- Lowe Art Museum Shows "excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries" From The Petrie Museum
Art Knowledge News Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology,University College, London, is on view at the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, from June 28th through November 2nd, 2008. The major traveling exhibition...
- Plans Unveiled For $550 Million Museum
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=116 "Plans have been announced for the $550 million Great Egyptian Museum, to be established near the Pyramids near Cairo. It will be among the world’s largest museums, and is by far the biggest to be...
- Petrie Museum Wins Top Award
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4538365.stm "A 100-year-old museum, home to one of the world's largest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology, has won an industry award. A panel of experts judged University College London's...