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After the death of Wilbour, the papyrus was given to the Brooklyn Museum by his widow in 1916, but remained in the home of Theodora Wilbour, a daughter of Charles Wilbour, until 1935. At that time, the papyrus consisted of approximately 600 small fragments, which were reassembled from 1950 to 1952.
The New York State Archives was established in 1971 to preserve and make accessible recorded evidence documenting New York State's history, governments, events, and peoples from the 17th century to the present. Full operations began in 1978 when the organization's storage and research facility opened in the Cultural Education Center.
Cleopatra's Needle in New York City is one of a pair of obelisks, together named Cleopatra's Needles, that were moved from the ruins of the Caesareum of Alexandria, Egypt, in the 19th century. The stele , dating from the 15th century B.C., was installed in Central Park , west of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 's main building in Manhattan , on ...
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]
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 ...
The Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives holds approximately 300,000 volumes [1] and over 3,000 linear feet of archives related to the history of the museum and its collections. The library collections comprise books, periodicals, auction catalogs, artist and institutional files as well as special collections containing photographs, sketches ...
New York State Museum: Albany Albany Capital District Multiple Art, artifacts (prehistoric and historic), and natural history artifacts that reflect New York State's cultural, natural, and geological development New York State Wine Museum of Greyton H. Taylor: Hammondsport: Steuben Finger Lakes Multiple Food and drink Niagara Arts & Cultural ...
Alabama Department of Archives and History: Alaska: Alaska Historical Society: Alaska State Museum: Arizona: Arizona Historical Society: Arizona State Museum: Arkansas: Arkansas Historical Association: Historic Arkansas Museum: California: California Historical Society: The California Museum: Colorado: History Colorado: History Colorado Center ...