Egypt
- 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...
- Swaffham Museum Finds Funding
EDP24 Swaffham Museum has had a funding crisis for a long time now, and was in danger of losing all of its professional staff. Swaffham Museum has secured a grant which will allow its education officer to continue crucial work for another year. Earlier...
- Swaffham Museum Funding Crisis
EDP24 Swaffham Museum has launched an 11th hour survival appeal as a funding crisis means it might lose its professional staff or even close down. The venue which houses a collection dedicated to the famous Egyptologist Howard Carter is currently undergoing...
- Swaffham Museum Howard Carter Gallery
http://tinyurl.com/2nnezx "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...
- 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
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.
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 have been loaned to Swaffham Museum by Susan Allen, from Swaffham, and they include two landscape scenes by William Carter.The Swaffham Museum is located in Norfolk, U.K. and has its own website.
A third painting, that is signed by Henry Carter and dated 1916, is of Sporle Road House, in Swaffham. There is also a picture of a foal in a forest by HW Carter that was painted in 1885.
- 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...
- Swaffham Museum Finds Funding
EDP24 Swaffham Museum has had a funding crisis for a long time now, and was in danger of losing all of its professional staff. Swaffham Museum has secured a grant which will allow its education officer to continue crucial work for another year. Earlier...
- Swaffham Museum Funding Crisis
EDP24 Swaffham Museum has launched an 11th hour survival appeal as a funding crisis means it might lose its professional staff or even close down. The venue which houses a collection dedicated to the famous Egyptologist Howard Carter is currently undergoing...
- Swaffham Museum Howard Carter Gallery
http://tinyurl.com/2nnezx "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...
- 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...