Description
Book Synopsis
Conflicts and wars, and more specifically the 2011 Revolution in Egypt, have brought to light the worrying question of the preservation of the cultural heritage in the world. The roles of museums and international institutions have become ever more important in this respect.
Recognizing that cultural treasures can form the basis for education and economic prosperity, the organizers devoted the 29th Annual Meeting of ICOM's International Committee for Egyptology (CIPEG) to the theme of Collections at Risk: New Challenges in a New Environment.
The present volume contains several of the papers read during those sessions in Brussels in 2012, and gives a clear example of the multifarious paths that lie open to obtaining the objective of preserving the past for the future.
Trade Review... this volume gathers a number of little-known stories behind the formation, interpretation and display of collections of Egyptian artefacts. [...] This volume thus fits well within and increasing consciousness of the random routes by which collections appear - asking us to reconsider constructions of 'ancient Egypt' based on such idiosyncratic material'
-- Campbell Price * Ancient Egypt, February/March 2018, Volume 18, No.4 *
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword, Ehab Fawzy
Preface, Luc Delvaux
Abbreviations
Contributors
Introduction, Maarten J. Raven
Collections at Risk:Cultural Heritage Preservation - Regine Schulz
Museums in Danger and How They Can Survive - Anna-Maria Ravagnan
Training against Attacks on Cultural Heritage - Marek Chlodnicki
Tell el-Farkha: The Life of Discovered Objects after the Excavations - Badrya Serry
The Role of the Antiquities Museum in Preserving the Archaeological Heritage of Alexandria, Egypt - Luc Delvaux
Sauvés des flames: destruction et reconstruction de sculptures monumentales de la collection égyptienne des Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Bruxelles - Christian E. Loeben
Collections at a Loss: The Looting of Egyptian Objects in 1945 after the End of WWII as Illustrated by an Exhibition at the Museum August Kestner, Hannover - Tine Bagh
Pharaoh's Palace: From the Ruins of Memphis to Copenhagen - Arnaud Quertinmont
Les collections égyptiennes et proche-orientales du Musée royal de Mariemont: Risques encourus et préventions de ceux-ci - Mohamed Ismael Badawi
New Methods of Handling and Care of Collections in the Grand Egyptian Museum and the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization - Willem Van Haarlem
The Papyrus Puzzle, or How to Unlock a Random Papyrus Collection? - Hedvig Gyory
Egyptology and Museum Education: The Budapest Program "On the Field of Osiris" as a Tool for Preserving Cultural Heritage - Paula Veiga
A Rescue from Oblivion - Simone Burger Robin
Graywacke: A Case Study for the Accurate Use of Appropriate Stone Terminology
Collections, History, and Renovation - Eugène Warmenbol
Sarah Belzoni and Her Mummy: Notes on the Early History of the Egyptian Collection in Brussels - Ben van den Bercken
Aegyptiaca Incognita: The Birth, Development, and Use of University Collections with Ancient Egyptian Objects in Northwest Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Sabina Malgora
Highlighting the Camillo Leone Egyptian Collection - Carmen Pérez-Die and Esther Pons Mellado
The New Installation of the Egyptian and Nubian Rooms in the Museo Arqueologico Nacional (National Archaeological Museum), Madrid, Spain - Mladen Tomorad
The Ancient Egyptian Collections in Croatia and the Project Croato-Aegyptica Electronica
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