Egypt
Fitzwilliam Museum Home Page
- New Book: Photography And Archaeology
Reaktion Books Not exactly Egyptology, but potentially of some interest to some readers. Photography and Archaeology Frederick N. Bohrer Through photographs we preserve the past, and looking for the past is the very job of the archaeologist. But what...
- Egypt's History In Photographs
Al Ahram Weekly (Rania Khallaf) Presenting Egypt's history through photography is a recurrent theme in today's art galleries. However, it can be hard to get a sense of Egypt's long history through a single exhibition, since the country's...
- Online Journal: Bmsaes 14
British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan 14 I've posted about BMSAES 14 in dribs and drabs but here's the entire volume, all available free of charge online from the above address. The final issue of 2009 features two articles based on...
- Louvre - Partial Photography Ban
http://tinyurl.com/9s52a http://tinyurl.com/8cc8e There has been a lot of discussion recently about whether or not the Louvre are going to ban photography, so thanks to Thierry Benderitter from osiris.net for pointing out the above news item (first URL...
- Fitzwilliam Egyptology Collection Closed Til 2006
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/projects/ae/ According to the Fitzwilliam Museum's (Cambridge, UK) website, which I visited to plan a trip to the museum: "The Egyptian Galleries closed to the public on 4 October 2004. They will re-open early in 2006....
Egypt
Photography at the Fitzwilliam Museum (UK)
Fitzwilliam Museum Home Page
This will have only a very localized relevance to people visiting musums in the U.K., but I thought it might be of use to some. I recently emailed the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (U.K.) to ask whether they permitted photography for non-commercial purposes, and their answer came back yesterday.
Photography is not permitted in any of the galleries, although scholars and students may write to the Museum Adminsitration with a request to take photographs for their private study or research. Such requests are passed for approval to the Keeper of the collection and it is therefore essential to be clear about the object(s) in question (ideally by accession number, but certainly by gallery and description). Private photography has to be arranged outside public opening hours, so the opportunities are restricted.
There are a number of online exhibitions which show artefacts held in the museum's Egyptology collections.
The museum does have a photography department which can supply thousands of photographs,for a fee (the price list is online, in PDF format - for details see the Photography Department pages. Images are also available via the Bridgeman Art Library. The Bridgeman does have a search engine for images.
Photography is not permitted in any of the galleries, although scholars and students may write to the Museum Adminsitration with a request to take photographs for their private study or research. Such requests are passed for approval to the Keeper of the collection and it is therefore essential to be clear about the object(s) in question (ideally by accession number, but certainly by gallery and description). Private photography has to be arranged outside public opening hours, so the opportunities are restricted.
There are a number of online exhibitions which show artefacts held in the museum's Egyptology collections.
The museum does have a photography department which can supply thousands of photographs,for a fee (the price list is online, in PDF format - for details see the Photography Department pages. Images are also available via the Bridgeman Art Library. The Bridgeman does have a search engine for images.
- New Book: Photography And Archaeology
Reaktion Books Not exactly Egyptology, but potentially of some interest to some readers. Photography and Archaeology Frederick N. Bohrer Through photographs we preserve the past, and looking for the past is the very job of the archaeologist. But what...
- Egypt's History In Photographs
Al Ahram Weekly (Rania Khallaf) Presenting Egypt's history through photography is a recurrent theme in today's art galleries. However, it can be hard to get a sense of Egypt's long history through a single exhibition, since the country's...
- Online Journal: Bmsaes 14
British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan 14 I've posted about BMSAES 14 in dribs and drabs but here's the entire volume, all available free of charge online from the above address. The final issue of 2009 features two articles based on...
- Louvre - Partial Photography Ban
http://tinyurl.com/9s52a http://tinyurl.com/8cc8e There has been a lot of discussion recently about whether or not the Louvre are going to ban photography, so thanks to Thierry Benderitter from osiris.net for pointing out the above news item (first URL...
- Fitzwilliam Egyptology Collection Closed Til 2006
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/projects/ae/ According to the Fitzwilliam Museum's (Cambridge, UK) website, which I visited to plan a trip to the museum: "The Egyptian Galleries closed to the public on 4 October 2004. They will re-open early in 2006....