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The seven permanent Egyptian galleries at the British Museum, which include its largest exhibition space (Room 4, for monumental sculpture), can display only 4% of its Egyptian holdings. The second-floor galleries have a selection of the museum's collection of 140 mummies and coffins, the largest outside Cairo. A high proportion of the ...
Caton Thompson not only found a number of archaeological artifacts from Egypt, she also organized their display at the Egyptian Exhibition in England. [7] Many of these finds are now in the British Museum's permanent collection, [12] with smaller collections in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. [4]
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, four mummies – the priestess Hortesnakht of Akhmim, [33] the lady Rer of Saqqara, [33] an unidentified man from the 4th or 3rd century BCE (known as "the mummy from Szombathely" after the location of the previous collection he was part of) [34] and a man from the 2nd century BCE (known as "the unwrapped mummy" as he was already unwrapped when the museum ...
Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt: Over 100,000 artifacts [1] (due to being partly opened in 2018, currently housed in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo) British Museum, London, England: Over 100,000 artifacts [2] (not including the 2001 donation of the six million artifact Wendorf Collection of Egyptian and Sudanese Prehistory) [3] [4]
Egyptian Geological Museum: Cairo: Egyptian Military museum: Cairo: Citadel: 1938: Egyptian Museum: Cairo: Ancient Egypt Antiquities: Gamal Abdel Nasser Museum: Cairo: Gayer-Anderson Museum: Cairo: Gezira Center for Modern Art (also known as the Egyptian Modern Art Museum) Cairo: contemporary and modern art: Graeco-Roman Museum: Alexandria ...
500,000 objects [10] (In addition to Africa, Americas & Oceania, the museum embraces holdings from Asia (South, South-East, Far-East and North Asia), the Islamic World, the Children's Museum and the Museum for the Blind.) Russian Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia 500,000 objects [11] British Museum, London, UK 350,000 objects [12]
At the British Museum Walker curated a number of major exhibitions, including Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt at the British Museum in 1997. In 2004 she became the Sackler Keeper of Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum , [ 2 ] and she had a key role in the redevelopment of the museum's displays.
The back of a Middle Kingdom paddle doll dated approximately from 2030 B.C.E to 1802 B.C.E. Egyptologists have determined that paddle dolls represent female members of the Theban khener-troupe of singers and dancers that served at religious ceremonies for the goddess Hathor and were perhaps appended by Nebhepetre to his royal mortuary cult at Deir el-Bahari.