ACCES

12/04/2013

Perhaps of interest to members: http://www.artfund.org/what-we-do/apply-for-funding/curatorial-grants-aims-and-eligibility

The Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Grants programme has been created to help curators maintain and develop their specialist knowledge and expertise.

26/03/2013

It is as yet unclear what the extent of the damage is after a fire at the Cuming Museum in London.

A pic of the Egypt case in the Cuming Museum taken in 2009. When we have more information about the extent of the damage we will let you know

21/01/2013

Egyptian and Sudanese collection in Harrogate

http://www.investigateegypt.co.uk/main.asp?page=1394

16/06/2012

Latest of several reports from participants in a very productive ACCES seminar in Swansea yesterday

Yesterday I attended a stimulating seminar at the Egypt Centre in Swansea, organised by Curators Carolyn Graves-Brown and Wendy Goodridge on behalf of the Association of Curators for Collections fr...

30/04/2012

Considering access to objects...

On Thursday I met with a group of around 30 visitors from Henshaws, a charity that provides support for blind and visually impaired people. I confess to a little trepidation at the task of describi...

28/04/2012

This is a fine example of a rare type of stela, made to honour the ‘effective spirits of Re’ (Akhw iqr n Ra). Only around 60 are known, and these date exclusively to the later New Kingdom (c. 1...

17/04/2012

This small (4.2cm wide) object has perhaps the most dramatic biography of any in the Manchester Egypt collection, and one which would not seem out of place in Hollywood movie script. Known today as...

04/01/2012

A new page for the Egypt and Sudan galleries at Manchester Museum: http://www.facebook.com/ #!/pages/Ancient-Egypt-and-Sudan-at-The-Manchester-Museum/185391424891368?sk=wall

Manchester Museum cares for over 18,000 objects from Egypt & Sudan, one of the largest in the UK

21/11/2011

23/10/2011

Material, as yet without accession numbers, in the East Ayrshire Council collection. Images © East Ayrshire Council

09/09/2011

All images © Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow

16/06/2011