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The emergence of Empathy
“We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.” Bonhoeffer Although I may be hedging my bets by opening my first ever blog...
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The Intrigues of Interning
guest blogger: Elyse Bailey (Intern at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology) Usually when the name “Intern” comes to mind, most people think of a young, determined student looking for future...
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Animals of Ancient Egypt, in WC1???
This year saw another lively and successful Bloomsbury festival with collections, performances, and art installations being opened up for anyone to visit and enjoy. In the melee of such a diverse...
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Digital Egypt: Museums of the Future.
Guest blogger: Giancarlo Amati (Digital Developer at the Petrie Museum) On the 3rd of November 2012, The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology organized “Digital Egypt: Museums of the Future”, a...
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The Fellowship Continues
A new year has begun and our Fellows are now developing their projects back in their respective institutions. The Cultural Heritage Fellowship, which was established in 2012, aimed at promoting and...
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Cleopatra (Κλεοπάτρα Φιλοπάτωρ)
Upcoming event: Caesar and Cleopatra, February 6th 2013 By Andie Byrnes Britain’s first million-pound film, starring Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains, was Caesar and Cleopatra. Based on George Bernard...
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Tempus Fugit
Guest blogger: Chris Webb Wednesday 12 February at The Petrie Museum, saw our first evening in a series of talks given by our Timekeeper in residence, artist-curator Cathy Haynes,...
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QR codes and “Tales of Things” at the Petrie Museum
guest blogger Andie Byrnes I was at an object-handling session on the 5th March 2013 and as I had arrived early I took the opportunity get out my phone and play with the QR codes set up next to...
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Kings and Queens and the case of the pink hippo?
Guest Blogger, Christopher Webb On Tuesday the 26th February the Petrie Museum played host to a celebration of LGBT history month. The evening, ‘Every good thing’, saw Egyptologist John J Johnston in...
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Spring Invocation 1: Birds
Given that we are enduring a slightly tepid spring, I figured it’d be nice to pretend we are in the middle of the whirl of new life, joy and bouncing lambs that spring promises to bring. In this series...
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guest blogger: Chris Webb In recent history there are few contentious subjects that are as notorious as eugenics. There are not many areas of discussion that can illicit such heated debate. Indeed,...
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Moving Forward: Cultural Heritage Fellowship 2012/13
It is hard to believe we will be playing proud host to our group of 9 Fellows in just a few months’ time. Time has flown and our Fellows have been busy developing their Community Engagement projects...
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Remember, Remember, an event to Remember
Guest Blogger: Chris Webb The 18th April saw another fascinating event in the Petrie Museum’s popular timekeeper series, hosted by our own timekeeper in residence, Cathy Haynes. We were asked; how easy...
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Diamonds are Forever
by Chris Webb Although a James Bond reference may be a tenuous link to the Petrie Museum, it is the literal, or rather chronological, duration of the shiny, super-hard compressed allotropes of carbon...
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Tomb Raiders: Ancient Egypt in Modern Art
Guest blogger: Kholood Al-Fahad How can Ancient art be brought to life by contemporary art? Is there a connection between ancient and new? Tomb Raiders is the place were such questions should have an...
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Working [in Museums] Wednesdays #2
The Vexation of Volunteering Volunteering in museums has being a bit maligned, are budding young enthusiasts being taken advantage of ? (such as this MJ article). Unfortunately, there may appear an...
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The mysteries of the Egyptian hairstyles
Collection Correspondent: Monika Zgoda Please note this post contains images of human remains. The allure of the Ancient Egypt, scented with the air of mystery has been enchanting generations, and...
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Working [in museums] Wednesdays #3
Tunnelling into museums (not literally!) When it comes to job hunting I am intensely jealous of people like Flinders Petrie, who was pretty much handed the Chair of Egyptian Archaeology at the bequest...
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Petrie’s Menagerie: The Hippopotamus
The link between the Petrie collection and Egypt is pretty obvious, founded in 1892 the collection incorporates roughly 80,000 Egyptian and Sudanese objects ranging from human remains to socks. The...
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Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards.
Reflecting on the past year for the Cultural Heritage Fellowship I am writing another post cataloguing our two final fellows, Sonia Slim (Tunisia) and Ramdane Kamal (Algeria)[1]. Sonia is a Chief...
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