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Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

January 01, 1970

The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in London is part of University College London Museums and Collections. The museum contains 80,000 objects, making it one of the world's largest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese material.[1] It is designated under the Arts Council England Designation Scheme as being of "national and international importance".[2]

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and the Science Library, Malet Place
Established1892 (1892)
LocationLondon
Coordinates51°31′25″N 0°7′59″W / 51.52361°N 0.13306°W / 51.52361; -0.13306
Collection sizeOver 80,000 objects
WebsiteOfficial website

History edit

 
Upper part of a statuette of an Egyptian woman and her husband. 18th Dynasty. From the Amelia Edwards Collection now housed in the Petrie Museum

The museum was established as a teaching resource for the Department of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology at University College at the same time as the department was established in 1892.[3] The initial collection was donated by the writer Amelia Edwards.[4][5] The first Edwards Professor, William Matthew Flinders Petrie, conducted many important excavations, and in 1913 he sold his collections of Egyptian antiquities to University College, creating the Flinders Petrie Collection of Egyptian Antiquities, and transforming the museum into one of the leading collections outside Egypt. The collection was first put on display in June 1915.[6] Petrie excavated dozens of major sites in the course of his career, including the Roman Period cemeteries at Hawara,[7] famous for the beautiful mummy portraits in classical Roman style;[8][9] Amarna, the city of king Akhenaten;[10] and the first true pyramid, at Meydum, where he uncovered some of the earliest evidence for mummification.[11]

The collection and library were arranged in galleries within the main building at the university and a guidebook was published in 1915. Initially, the collection's visitors were students and academics; it was not then open to the general public. Petrie retired from University College London (UCL) in 1933,[12] though his successors continued to add to the collections, excavating in other parts of Egypt and Sudan. During the Second World War (1939–1945) the collection was packed up and moved out of London for safekeeping. In the early 1950s it was moved into a former stable, where it remains adjacent to the DMS Watson science library of UCL.

Current description edit

 
Fragments and slabs of stelae. Inscriptions Aisle

The museum is at Malet Place, near Gower Street and the University College London science library. Admission is free.[13] The museum has an exhibitions and events programme for adults and families.[14] There is a Friends of the Petrie Museum charity that supports the museum.[15]

Organisation and collections edit

 
Display case at previous entrance to the Petrie (prior to refurbishment), with figurines and statuettes

The museum is split into three galleries. The main gallery (housed above the old stables) contains many of the museum's small domestic artefacts, mummy portraits and cases, and the Inscriptions Aisle. The Inscriptions Aisle displays tablets, including Pyramid Texts, written in hieroglyphics, hieratic, Greek, and Arabic, and organised according to material type. Another gallery (the pottery gallery) contains many cabinets of pottery, clothing, jewellery, and shabti figures, arranged chronologically. A new entrance gallery was refurbished in 2019[16] which provides an insight into the history of the museum, its collections, and notable figures.

The entire collection has been digitised and the catalogue can be browsed and consulted online.[17]

Significant holdings edit

 
Limestone head of a king (its provenance is unknown and has no inscriptions). Thought by Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London, to be Narmer, on the basis of the similarity (according to Petrie[18]) to the head of Narmer on the Narmer Palette. This has not been generally accepted. According to Trope, Quirke & Lacovara,[19] the suggestion that it is Narmer is "unlikely". Alternatively, they suggest the Fourth Dynasty king Khufu. Stevenson[20] also identifies it as Khufu. Charron[21] identifies it as a king of the Thinite Period (the first two dynasties), but does not believe it can be assigned to any particular king. Wilkinson[22] describes it as "probably Second Dynasty".

The museum contains over 80,000 objects[23] as has been designated as a collection of national and international importance by the Arts Council England.[2]

There are significant holdings of Egyptian costume, including a piece of Egyptian linen from around 5000 BC, one of the earliest known,[24] and the Tarkhan dress from the fourth millennium BC, the world's oldest known woven garment as of 2016.[25]

The collection also includes material from the Ptolemaic, Roman and Islamic periods.[26] This includes Britain's largest collection of Roman period mummy portraits.[27]

There is a substantial archive held in the museum, including excavation records, correspondence and photographs relating to excavations led by Flinders Petrie.[citation needed] There are additionally documents relating to the distribution of finds from fieldwork to museums worldwide between 1887 and 1949.[28]

List of curators edit

Published works edit

In 2007 Left Coast Press published Living Images: Egypian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum, edited by Janet Picton, Stephen Quirke, and Paul C. Roberts. This book is on the Roman mummy portraits from the Fayum and details their conservation work.

In 2014 Bloomsbury Press published Archaeology of Race which "explores the application of racial theory to interpret the past in Britain during the late Victorian and Edwardian period."[32] The book, written by Debbie Chalice, specifically focuses on how Flinders Petrie applied the ideas of Francis Galton on inheritance and race to the discipline of archaeology.

In 2015 UCL Press published a multi-author compilation of articles, The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections, which is available in both print and via a free open access download.[33] It is edited by Alice Stevenson.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ . UCL Petrie Museum. Archived from the original on 20 June 2018. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Designated Collections". Arts Council England. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
  3. ^ "UCL: The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology". Museum Mile. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
  4. ^ Moon, Brenda E. (2006). More Usefully Employed: Amelia B. Edwards, Writer, Traveller and Campaigner for Ancient Egypt. London: Egypt Exploration Society. ISBN 9780856981692. OCLC 850990713.
  5. ^ Willey, Russ. "Rehumanising the past. Petrie Museum, behind Gower Street, Bloomsbury". Hidden London. London, ENG. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
  6. ^ Stevenson 2015, p. 15.
  7. ^ Stevenson 2015, pp. 66, 82.
  8. ^ "Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt". The Met. 8 February 2000. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
  9. ^ Picton, Janet; Quirke, Stephen; Roberts, Paul C., eds. (2007). Living Images: Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press. ISBN 9781598742510. OCLC 878764269.
  10. ^ "The Central City - Amarna The Place". Amarna Project. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
  11. ^ UCL. "UCL – London's Global University". UCL CULTURE. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
  12. ^ "Accessing Virtual Egypt".
  13. ^ Petrie Museum Staff (24 August 2016). "Petrie Museum". ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  14. ^ UCL. "Get Hands on with ancient Egypt". UCL CULTURE. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
  15. ^ Petrie Museum Staff (28 February 2017). "Friends of the Petrie Museum Membership". Petrie.UCL.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  16. ^ "Petrie and Edwards: Gateway to the World of Egyptology".
  17. ^ Petrie Museum Staff (28 February 2017). "UCL Petrie Museum Online Catalogue". Petrie.UCL.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  18. ^ Petrie 1939, p. 78.
  19. ^ Trope, Quirke & Lacovara 2005, p. 18.
  20. ^ Stevenson 2015, p. 44.
  21. ^ Charron 1990, p. 97.
  22. ^ Wilkinson 1999.
  23. ^ UCL. "UCL – London's Global University". UCL CULTURE.
  24. ^ "The Petrie Museum's Firsts" (PDF). UCL Culture. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  25. ^ "UCL Petrie Museum's Tarkhan Dress: world's oldest woven garment". UCL. 15 February 2016.
  26. ^ . Petrie.UCL.ac.uk. 2 March 2013. Archived from the original on 2 March 2013. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  27. ^ Picton, Janet; Quirke, Stephen; Roberts, Paul C., eds. (2007). Living Images: Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press. p. 20. ISBN 9781598742510. OCLC 878764269.
  28. ^ "Homepage / الصفحة الرئيسية – Artefacts of Excavation". egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk.
  29. ^ "Spotlight on... Dr Anna Garnett". UCL News. 17 December 2020. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
  30. ^ "Dr Alice Stevenson - Associate Professor in Museum Studies". Institute of Archaeology. University College London. 22 January 2019. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
  31. ^ "Curating the Petrie Museum: Three Object Stories | UCL UCL Culture Blog". blogs.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
  32. ^ bloomsbury.com. "The Archaeology of Race". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
  33. ^ Stevenson 2015.

Bibliography edit

  • Charron, Alain (1990), "L'époque thinite", L'Égypte des millénaires obscures, Paris, pp. 77–97{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
  • Petrie, W.M. Flinders (1939), The making of Egypt, British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Egyptian Research Account, vol. 61, London: Sheldon Press.
  • Stevenson, Alice (2015). The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections. London: UCLPress. ISBN 978-1-910634-04-2.

Open access pdf download.

  • Trope, Betsy Teasley; Quirke, Stephen; Lacovara, Peter (2005), Excavating Egypt: great discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College, London, Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University.
  • Wilkinson, TAH (1999), Early Dynastic Egypt, London; New York: Routledge.

Further reading edit

External links edit

 
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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology news newspapers books scholar JSTOR February 2017 Learn how and when to remove this message The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in London is part of University College London Museums and Collections The museum contains 80 000 objects making it one of the world s largest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese material 1 It is designated under the Arts Council England Designation Scheme as being of national and international importance 2 Petrie Museum of Egyptian ArchaeologyThe Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and the Science Library Malet PlaceEstablished1892 1892 LocationLondonCoordinates51 31 25 N 0 7 59 W 51 52361 N 0 13306 W 51 52361 0 13306Collection sizeOver 80 000 objectsWebsiteOfficial website Contents 1 History 2 Current description 2 1 Organisation and collections 2 2 Significant holdings 3 List of curators 4 Published works 5 See also 6 References 7 Bibliography 8 Further reading 9 External linksHistory edit nbsp Upper part of a statuette of an Egyptian woman and her husband 18th Dynasty From the Amelia Edwards Collection now housed in the Petrie Museum The museum was established as a teaching resource for the Department of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology at University College at the same time as the department was established in 1892 3 The initial collection was donated by the writer Amelia Edwards 4 5 The first Edwards Professor William Matthew Flinders Petrie conducted many important excavations and in 1913 he sold his collections of Egyptian antiquities to University College creating the Flinders Petrie Collection of Egyptian Antiquities and transforming the museum into one of the leading collections outside Egypt The collection was first put on display in June 1915 6 Petrie excavated dozens of major sites in the course of his career including the Roman Period cemeteries at Hawara 7 famous for the beautiful mummy portraits in classical Roman style 8 9 Amarna the city of king Akhenaten 10 and the first true pyramid at Meydum where he uncovered some of the earliest evidence for mummification 11 The collection and library were arranged in galleries within the main building at the university and a guidebook was published in 1915 Initially the collection s visitors were students and academics it was not then open to the general public Petrie retired from University College London UCL in 1933 12 though his successors continued to add to the collections excavating in other parts of Egypt and Sudan During the Second World War 1939 1945 the collection was packed up and moved out of London for safekeeping In the early 1950s it was moved into a former stable where it remains adjacent to the DMS Watson science library of UCL Current description edit nbsp Fragments and slabs of stelae Inscriptions Aisle The museum is at Malet Place near Gower Street and the University College London science library Admission is free 13 The museum has an exhibitions and events programme for adults and families 14 There is a Friends of the Petrie Museum charity that supports the museum 15 Organisation and collections edit nbsp Display case at previous entrance to the Petrie prior to refurbishment with figurines and statuettes The museum is split into three galleries The main gallery housed above the old stables contains many of the museum s small domestic artefacts mummy portraits and cases and the Inscriptions Aisle The Inscriptions Aisle displays tablets including Pyramid Texts written in hieroglyphics hieratic Greek and Arabic and organised according to material type Another gallery the pottery gallery contains many cabinets of pottery clothing jewellery and shabti figures arranged chronologically A new entrance gallery was refurbished in 2019 16 which provides an insight into the history of the museum its collections and notable figures The entire collection has been digitised and the catalogue can be browsed and consulted online 17 Significant holdings edit nbsp Limestone head of a king its provenance is unknown and has no inscriptions Thought by Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology London to be Narmer on the basis of the similarity according to Petrie 18 to the head of Narmer on the Narmer Palette This has not been generally accepted According to Trope Quirke amp Lacovara 19 the suggestion that it is Narmer is unlikely Alternatively they suggest the Fourth Dynasty king Khufu Stevenson 20 also identifies it as Khufu Charron 21 identifies it as a king of the Thinite Period the first two dynasties but does not believe it can be assigned to any particular king Wilkinson 22 describes it as probably Second Dynasty The museum contains over 80 000 objects 23 as has been designated as a collection of national and international importance by the Arts Council England 2 There are significant holdings of Egyptian costume including a piece of Egyptian linen from around 5000 BC one of the earliest known 24 and the Tarkhan dress from the fourth millennium BC the world s oldest known woven garment as of 2016 update 25 The collection also includes material from the Ptolemaic Roman and Islamic periods 26 This includes Britain s largest collection of Roman period mummy portraits 27 There is a substantial archive held in the museum including excavation records correspondence and photographs relating to excavations led by Flinders Petrie citation needed There are additionally documents relating to the distribution of finds from fieldwork to museums worldwide between 1887 and 1949 28 List of curators editThis list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items June 2023 1948 1963 Anthony J Arkell 29 1963 1970 Harry Smith 1970 1978 David M Dixon 1984 2001 Barbara Adams 2013 2017 Alice Stevenson 30 2017 present Anna E Garnett 31 Published works editIn 2007 Left Coast Press published Living Images Egypian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum edited by Janet Picton Stephen Quirke and Paul C Roberts This book is on the Roman mummy portraits from the Fayum and details their conservation work In 2014 Bloomsbury Press published Archaeology of Race which explores the application of racial theory to interpret the past in Britain during the late Victorian and Edwardian period 32 The book written by Debbie Chalice specifically focuses on how Flinders Petrie applied the ideas of Francis Galton on inheritance and race to the discipline of archaeology In 2015 UCL Press published a multi author compilation of articles The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Characters and Collections which is available in both print and via a free open access download 33 It is edited by Alice Stevenson See also editList of museums of Egyptian antiquitiesReferences edit UCL Petrie Museum Online Catalogue UCL Petrie Museum Archived from the original on 20 June 2018 Retrieved 21 June 2018 a b Designated Collections Arts Council England Retrieved 6 October 2023 UCL The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Museum Mile Retrieved 21 June 2018 Moon Brenda E 2006 More Usefully Employed Amelia B Edwards Writer Traveller and Campaigner for Ancient Egypt London Egypt Exploration Society ISBN 9780856981692 OCLC 850990713 Willey Russ Rehumanising the past Petrie Museum behind Gower Street Bloomsbury Hidden London London ENG Retrieved 24 November 2014 Stevenson 2015 p 15 Stevenson 2015 pp 66 82 Ancient Faces Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt The Met 8 February 2000 Retrieved 21 June 2018 Picton Janet Quirke Stephen Roberts Paul C eds 2007 Living Images Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum Walnut Creek CA Left Coast Press ISBN 9781598742510 OCLC 878764269 The Central City Amarna The Place Amarna Project Retrieved 21 June 2018 UCL UCL London s Global University UCL CULTURE Retrieved 21 June 2018 Accessing Virtual Egypt Petrie Museum Staff 24 August 2016 Petrie Museum ucl ac uk Retrieved 6 January 2018 UCL Get Hands on with ancient Egypt UCL CULTURE Retrieved 21 June 2018 Petrie Museum Staff 28 February 2017 Friends of the Petrie Museum Membership Petrie UCL ac uk Retrieved 28 February 2017 Petrie and Edwards Gateway to the World of Egyptology Petrie Museum Staff 28 February 2017 UCL Petrie Museum Online Catalogue Petrie UCL ac uk Retrieved 28 February 2017 Petrie 1939 p 78 Trope Quirke amp Lacovara 2005 p 18 Stevenson 2015 p 44 Charron 1990 p 97 Wilkinson 1999 UCL UCL London s Global University UCL CULTURE The Petrie Museum s Firsts PDF UCL Culture Retrieved 8 October 2023 UCL Petrie Museum s Tarkhan Dress world s oldest woven garment UCL 15 February 2016 Trails and Resources Petrie UCL ac uk 2 March 2013 Archived from the original on 2 March 2013 Retrieved 28 February 2017 Picton Janet Quirke Stephen Roberts Paul C eds 2007 Living Images Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum Walnut Creek CA Left Coast Press p 20 ISBN 9781598742510 OCLC 878764269 Homepage الصفحة الرئيسية Artefacts of Excavation egyptartefacts griffith ox ac uk Spotlight on Dr Anna Garnett UCL News 17 December 2020 Retrieved 24 June 2023 Dr Alice Stevenson Associate Professor in Museum Studies Institute of Archaeology University College London 22 January 2019 Retrieved 24 June 2023 Curating the Petrie Museum Three Object Stories UCL UCL Culture Blog blogs ucl ac uk Retrieved 24 June 2023 bloomsbury com The Archaeology of Race Bloomsbury Retrieved 12 March 2022 Stevenson 2015 Bibliography editCharron Alain 1990 L epoque thinite L Egypte des millenaires obscures Paris pp 77 97 a href Template Citation html title Template Citation citation a CS1 maint location missing publisher link Petrie W M Flinders 1939 The making of Egypt British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Egyptian Research Account vol 61 London Sheldon Press Stevenson Alice 2015 The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Characters and Collections London UCLPress ISBN 978 1 910634 04 2 Open access pdf download Trope Betsy Teasley Quirke Stephen Lacovara Peter 2005 Excavating Egypt great discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology University College London Atlanta Michael C Carlos Museum Emory University Wilkinson TAH 1999 Early Dynastic Egypt London New York Routledge Further reading editDrower Margaret S 1995 Flinders Petrie A Life in Archaeology 2nd ed Madison WI University of Wisconsin Press ISBN 0 299 14624 3 Petrie W M Flinders 1932 Seventy Years in Archaeology New York H Holt and Company OCLC 2128941 Petrie W M Flinders 1894 Tell el Amarna London Methuen amp Co OCLC 926196841 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Petrie Museum website UCL Museum Collections blog Friends of the Petrie Museum Information at Culture24 Digital Egypt site Characters and Collections e book Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology amp oldid 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