Egypt
- Museums: British Museum Launches Handheld Guides
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) The British Museum has introduced a set of handheld guides that are designed to teach many of its six million annual visitors about its collections. The Multimedia Guide is available in 11 different languages: English,...
- Egyptian Treasures For Swaffham Museum
Watton and Swaffham Times A carved hippopotamus with a broken leg, a bronze bowl, beauty products and precious rings - they are just some of the possessions of the pharaohs hidden from view for millennia. But now, in a major coup for the town, more than...
- Tutankhaman Tomb Family's Museum Gift
Watton and Swaffham Times A Norfolk museum has received a gift of paintings linked to the archaeologist who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun.They are the work of relations of the Egyptologist Howard Carter who grew up in Swaffham. The four pictures...
- Swaffham Museum Overview
http://tinyurl.com/3cobyf A review of museums in Norfolk (UK) includes an overview of Swaffham Museum: "Swaffham Museum first opened in 1986. The museum is based at the Town Hall and explores the rich heritage of the area, covering aspects of life including...
- Problems At Swaffham Museum
http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=991&ArticleID=1245936"A £384,000 improvement scheme for Swaffham Museum has run into a further delay because of structural problems at the town hall. The scheme, which should transform the museum's...
Egypt
Swaffham Museum Howard Carter gallery
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"The Carter room will feature a reconstruction of the tomb with audio-visual effects and other interactive displays.The computer and projector donated by Waitrose will be used to run learning resources produced by the British Museum's Educational Multimedia Unit, a feature unique to Swaffham Museum. The Museum hopes the interative resources will help visitors of all ages to engage with Egyptian history while having a lot of fun and will be of particular benefit to local schoolchildren."
"The Carter room will feature a reconstruction of the tomb with audio-visual effects and other interactive displays.The computer and projector donated by Waitrose will be used to run learning resources produced by the British Museum's Educational Multimedia Unit, a feature unique to Swaffham Museum. The Museum hopes the interative resources will help visitors of all ages to engage with Egyptian history while having a lot of fun and will be of particular benefit to local schoolchildren."
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- Museums: British Museum Launches Handheld Guides
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) The British Museum has introduced a set of handheld guides that are designed to teach many of its six million annual visitors about its collections. The Multimedia Guide is available in 11 different languages: English,...
- Egyptian Treasures For Swaffham Museum
Watton and Swaffham Times A carved hippopotamus with a broken leg, a bronze bowl, beauty products and precious rings - they are just some of the possessions of the pharaohs hidden from view for millennia. But now, in a major coup for the town, more than...
- Tutankhaman Tomb Family's Museum Gift
Watton and Swaffham Times A Norfolk museum has received a gift of paintings linked to the archaeologist who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun.They are the work of relations of the Egyptologist Howard Carter who grew up in Swaffham. The four pictures...
- Swaffham Museum Overview
http://tinyurl.com/3cobyf A review of museums in Norfolk (UK) includes an overview of Swaffham Museum: "Swaffham Museum first opened in 1986. The museum is based at the Town Hall and explores the rich heritage of the area, covering aspects of life including...
- Problems At Swaffham Museum
http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=991&ArticleID=1245936"A £384,000 improvement scheme for Swaffham Museum has run into a further delay because of structural problems at the town hall. The scheme, which should transform the museum's...