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Who is ‘the Man from Mitanni’?
Museum research can be like detective work – like Sherlock Holmes in a filing cabinet. (If there are any Benedict Cumberbatch fans reading this, don’t get distracted by that image). A vital part of...
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The Life in a Day of a Museum Assistant Part II
A light at the end of the tunnel After six months of waiting for a museum job to at the very least be advertised, never mind getting an interview (during which time I made ends meet by working my...
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Not So Lost Cities
Statellite Map of Tanis The use of ‘space archaeology’, a pioneering approach using satellite technology and infra-red surveying, in finding previously undiscovered monuments and towns from the ancient...
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An itch I cannot scratch
When I started my job at the Grant Museum of Zoology one of my roles was to sort out the adoption scheme that, due to an eight month period of closure, needed some… attention. Now as anyone who knows...
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Egypt around London
One of the occasional events that the Petrie Museum runs from April to October are lectures or walking talks exploring Ancient Egypt in London through Egyptianizing architecture and other monuments....
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Love, lust and courtship in the style of Rousseau
“The First Kiss of Love” from La Nouvelle Héloïse By Cathrine Alice Liberg Discover the sentimental side of Rousseau (and yourself!) at UCL Art Museum. Come Valentine’s Day, we wish to highlight...
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Guest blog: Treasures from the East
Guest blog by Stefanie van Gemert Have a look at this print from the UCL Art Museum’s collection. What do you think this man is staring at? Do you recognize any of the objects he is surrounded by? Who...
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Guest blog: Old London Bridge: Recovery from Disaster
GUEST BLOG: DAVID JONES Old London Bridge: Recovery from Disaster On Tuesday 9th October David Jones, Paper conservator, UCL Special Collections, curated a Pop-up display ‘Old London Bridge: Recovery...
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Students wanted for UCL Art Museum focus groups
UCL Museums and Public Engagement have been awarded funding from JISC to make 150,000 digitised objects from UCL Museums publicly available and to develop a range of new e-learning resources. The...
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Introducing the Touching Heritage volunteer blog
I am not sure that I will ever look at a piece of opal the same way again, after a patient at UCLH told me that the piece they were holding reminded them of jellied eel. Apparently, the opal looked,...
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The meteoric origins of Egypt’s first ironwork
by guest blogger: Isadora Fontaine Deep in the Predynastic galleries of the Petrie Museum, there is something truly out of this world. In the cabinet containing jewellery and beads from a tomb in...
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From the Field to the Museum and Back Again
by guest blogger: Alice Stevenson What are the chances? Two teams of archaeologists separated by a more than century stumbling across small fragments of the same object while working across a wide...
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Egypt on the Page: The Changing faces of Religion
The ever popular and ever sold out (although some tickets left for the 13th December screening) Petrie Film club chronicles the application of Egypt in just some of the many cinematic and TV...
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Museum life, loves and labels
Having spent some time digging around, I’d like to share with you some of my thought processes to build up a picture of the development of the Galton Collection through its object labels. Nothing is so...
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Pottery Project guest Blog: Pottery on the move.
Guest blog by Margaret Serpico In our fifth in the series on different perspectives on Egyptian pottery Mararet Serpico, Curator of Virtual Resources at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, looks...
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UCL Festival of the Arts and the Science Collections
In the last week of May, UCL will be hosting its second ever Festival of the Arts. It’s a four-day free festival aimed at showing off some of the wonderful work going on at UCL. And I am very pleased...
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Pottery Project Guest Blog: Trade in Opium from Cyprus to Egypt
Guest Blog by Valentina Gasperini In our sixth in the series of different perspectives on Egyptian potteryValentina Gasperini, a post-doctoral reseracher at the Department of Archaeology, Classics and...
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Museums on Prescription project will explore the role of museums in social...
In July 2014 at UCL we will begin a new 3 year project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to explore the value and role of museums in social prescribing. Social prescribing links...
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What remains to talk about? Human bodies on display
I’ve recently returned from holiday in Cascais, near Lisbon in Portugal, which was for the most part a fairly relaxing break. For the most part. There was the small matter of a rather lengthy complaint...
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Re-Launch of UCL Art Museum HQ
It’s been an exciting few months for UCL Art Museum’s HQ with the completion of reburbishment work and the opening of our Re-Launch summer exhibition. Our main space may sit on a footprint that is just...
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