A The Egypt Centre Event
SpeakerAlice Williams
Speaker's BiographyUniversity of Oxford
From: 17 May 2017, 7 p.m.To: 17 May 2017, 8 p.m.
Location: Fulton House 2 , Fulton House
Between 1884 and 1939 the Egypt Exploration Fund (later Society) and the British School of Archaeology in Egypt held a series of annual exhibitions in London to showcase the finds of each archaeological season. These popular pop-up exhibitions drew large crowds of visitors from across British society, keen to see artefacts excavated just weeks before and to hear about the new theories and adventures of high-profile archaeologists like Flinders Petrie and John Pendlebury. Using material from the archives of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and the Egypt Exploration Society, this talk will explore this exhibitionary practice in greater detail, examining what it would have been like to visit these displays and the crucial role they played in constructing a public image of ancient Egypt and Egyptian archaeology.
Free to members, £3.00 Non members
Contact: Wendy Goodridge (Email: w.r.goodridge@swansea.ac.uk) - Telephone: 5960
Event created by: w.r.goodridge