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 January 1st 2012
Sources:
1. Museums' own websites
2. Strudwick, Nigel: The British Museum masterpieces of ancient Egypt.
London : The British Museum Press, 2006.
3. http://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
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology,
University College London, UK
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology is one of the
largest of its kind in the world, and a highlight of UCL Museum
& Collections. The Museum was created in 1892 through the
bequest of the writer Amelia Edwards (1831-1892), as a
teaching resource of the Department of Egyptian Archaeology
and Philology. The uniquely important collection grew
considerably thanks to the excavating career of Flinders Petrie
(1853-1942) and provides a valuable insight into lives of
ancient Egyptian people.
www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk
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The Náprstek Museum,
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.
http://www.aconet.cz/npm
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The 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
The Nicholson Museum, Sydney,
Australia
The Egyptian collection spans all periods of
Egyptian history, from the prehistoric to
Roman times. Sir Charles Nicholson donated a
large part of the Egyptian collection to the
University and further objects were acquired
from the Egypt Exploration Fund (now Society)
in London from Abydos, Diospolis Parva,
el-Mahasna, el-Amrah and Qasr Ibrim during
the late 19th and early 20th century.
http://www.usyd.edu.au/museums/about/nichols
on.shtml
Photograph © Warwick Barnard 2009
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Kunsthistorisches Museum,
Vienna, Austria
Construction of the Kunsthistorisches
Museum, which was built by Gottfried
Semper and Carl von Hasenauer at the
bidding of the Emperor Franz Joseph 1, was
started in 1871 and completed in 1891.
The museum was to become one of Europe's
most important monumental museum buildings
of the 19th century. It was designed to
bring together and house the art and
treasures collected by the Habsburg Family
over several centuries.
http://www.khm.at/en/kunsthistorisches-mus
eum/
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City Museum & Art Gallery,
Bristol
The Ancient Egyptian gallery features over 600
objects. It covers "Belief", the religious beliefs of
the ancient Egyptians, including their views of
creation, their gods and their rituals.
"Life" - the social structure in ancient Egypt,
childhood and a variety of different jobs from
Pharaoh to farm labourer. "Death" - funerary belief,
preparation of the body for mummification, coffin
symbolism and tombs. And "afterlife" - the ancient
Egyptians' beliefs about what happened after death,
and the need for grave goods, servants, food
offerings, and possessions., life, death and the
afterlife in Ancient Egypt.

http://www.bristol.gov.uk/ccm/content/Leisure-Culture
/Museums-Galleries/bristol-museum-and-art-gallery-.
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The National Gallery, Prague,
Czech Republic
In 2011 the National Gallery in Prague
opened a new permanent exhibition in the
Kinsky Palace which is situated in the Old
Town Square, called The Art of the Old
World. The display was prepared in
cooperation with the National Museum. The
large collection of over 1,000 artworks
encompasses 7,000 years of art development
in the old world cultures of Europe, North
Africa and Asia.
http://www.ngprague.cz/en/6/sekce/kinsky-pa
lace/
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