Museum collection with Deir el-Medina objects

Museum collections of
objects from Deir el-Medina

The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
The Ashmolean Museum opened its doors to the public in
May 1683. The collection was presented to the University
of Oxford by Elias Ashmole (1617-1692). The collection
was originally founded by John Tradescant (d. 1638), who
displayed it to the public for a fee in his house at
Lambeth. The collection ranged from natural specimens to
man-made artefacts from all corners of the known world.
www.ashmolean.org

The page was last modified on July 5th 2008

Sources:
1. Museums' own websites
2. Strudwick, Nigel: The British Museum masterpieces of ancient Egypt.
London : The British Museum Press, 2006.
3. h ttp://www.aconet.cz/npm

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
The Fitzwilliam Museum owes its foundation to Richard,
VII Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion who, in 1816,
bequeathed to the University of Cambridge his works of
art and library, together with funds to house them. The
Museum's collection of Egyptian antiquities is widely
regarded as one of the finest in Britain. The collection
grew in importance towards the end of the 19th century
and in the early years of the 20th century, benefiting
from the work of Sir Flinders Petrie, the Egypt
Exploration Fund and the British School of Archaeology in
Egypt.
www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk

The British Museum, London, UK
The British Museum opened its doors to the public
in January 1759. The origins of the Museum lie in
the will of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), a
physician, naturalist and collector, who wished for
his collection of more than 71,000 objects,
library and herbarium to be preserved intact
after his death. An Act of Parliament establishing
the British Museum received the royal assent in
June 1753. The foundation collections mostly
consisted of books, manuscripts and natural
history with some antiquities and ethnography.
King George II donated the "Old Royal library" of
the sovereigns of England (nowadays housed in the
British Library in London) in 1757.
www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

Petrie Museum
University College London, UK
The Petrie Museum was established together with the
Department of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology at UCL as
a university museum in 1892 through the bequest of the
writer Amelia Edwards (1831-1892). Several hundred
Egyptian antiquities of her collection created the core
foundation of the museum but it grew mainly due to large
numbers of objects being sold to UCL by William Flinders
Petrie (1853-1942). Petrie excavated a number of major
sites in Egypt, including Meydum, Amarna and Hawara.
Nowadays the museum houses about 80,000 objects,
illustrating life in the area from prehistory through the
Pharaonic times, the Ptolemaic, Roman, Coptic and Islamic
periods.
www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk

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The Náprstek Museum of Asian,
African and American Cultures,
Prague, Czech Republic
After his return from exile in the United States,
Vojtěch Náprstek (1826-1894) established the private
Czech Industrial Museum in 1863, with the idea of
helping the underdeveloped Czech manufacturing sector,
in the old brewery building U Halánků.
Soon the museum and its library became a centre of
the Czech intelligentsia. Apart from objects of
technical nature, the museum also collected
ethnographic and artistic artefacts, which Náprstek’s
friends and various travellers brought from all around
the world. After his death the museum continued the
work of collecting ethnographic objects, and after 1946
its bearing was orientated purely towards non-European
cultures. Today the museum is one of the departments
of the National Museum.
h ttp://www.aconet.cz/npm

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Egyptian Museum, Turin, Italy
Fondazione Museo delle Antichità Egizie di Torino
The museum, specialising in Egyptian archaeology
and anthropology, is dedicated solely to Egyptian
art and culture. The collection has evolved over
the last two centuries, first as part of a
University collection then in the Science Academy
where it is housed today.
www.museoegizio.org/pages/hp_en.jsp

www.museoegizio.org

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