Official review: “Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology” (UCL, London)
The Petrie is a classic example of a lost era of curating (and being in Central London, you get to walk by once a while). Let’s refer to it as a fine example of the old-styled “academic / university museums”, representing an antiquated way to do knowledge. You can smell the exclusivity and the ambivalence in the very beginning with jargons to decipher and exhibits to be understood by getting another Master’s degree.
(Over the century they start to change and gradually acquire new styles of narration. You can find these hybrids in many major institutions; try Horniman Museum if you’re to stay in London. If you happen to be in Cambridge, try the Sedwick Museum of Earth Sciences.)
If you are to pass by occasionally (it’s at a prime location – near Russell Square – but you need to know how to walk the secret pathways of UCL to feel its convenience), you would have realized how it has been evolving too. And to enjoy the fun of revisits.
And now they’ve finally added some more explanation – a leaflet that is handed to you upon entry. It gives you an overview with The Top Ten `Must See` (sic) Objects.
From this you’ll immediate locate the “most” out of the collection. This includes the oldest religious article to be found – from the times of Pepi I (2321-2287 B.C.), and a shirt from the tomb at Tarkhan, which could be the oldest garment ever found (around 3000 B.C.).
And if you find yourself sandwiched between the leaflet’s lively texts and what’s inside the glass coffins – armchair, typewritten, yellowed cardboards.
It becomes pretty obvious that having pieces of paper stapled together is really the quickest solution to this.
Time is asset: save it for better with 25-min museum tours. Or find yourself in my novel, check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize.
Tags - in_depth_tourism; museum; London_writer; London_travel; indie_writer; independent_blogger
(Over the century they start to change and gradually acquire new styles of narration. You can find these hybrids in many major institutions; try Horniman Museum if you’re to stay in London. If you happen to be in Cambridge, try the Sedwick Museum of Earth Sciences.)
Glance: “Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology” (UCL, London)
If you are to pass by occasionally (it’s at a prime location – near Russell Square – but you need to know how to walk the secret pathways of UCL to feel its convenience), you would have realized how it has been evolving too. And to enjoy the fun of revisits.
Clip: “Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology” (UCL, London)
And now they’ve finally added some more explanation – a leaflet that is handed to you upon entry. It gives you an overview with The Top Ten `Must See` (sic) Objects.
From this you’ll immediate locate the “most” out of the collection. This includes the oldest religious article to be found – from the times of Pepi I (2321-2287 B.C.), and a shirt from the tomb at Tarkhan, which could be the oldest garment ever found (around 3000 B.C.).
And if you find yourself sandwiched between the leaflet’s lively texts and what’s inside the glass coffins – armchair, typewritten, yellowed cardboards.
It becomes pretty obvious that having pieces of paper stapled together is really the quickest solution to this.
Time is asset: save it for better with 25-min museum tours. Or find yourself in my novel, check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize.
Tags - in_depth_tourism; museum; London_writer; London_travel; indie_writer; independent_blogger
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