Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

University College London
Malet Place
London
WC1E 6BT
England

Website

www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk/

E-mail

petrie.museum@ucl.ac.uk

Telephone

020 7679 2884

Fax

020 7679 2886

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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The Petrie Museum houses an estimated 80,000 objects, making it one of the greatest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology in the world. It illustrates life in the Nile Valley from prehistory through the time of the pharaohs, the Ptolemaic, Roman and Coptic periods to the Islamic period.

Venue type

Museum

Opening hours

Tues-Fri 1300-1700
Sat 1100-1400
Closed Bank holidays
Easter & Christmas Period Closed

General services and facilities
  • Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
  • Pre-booking service for groups
  • Shop
Disability access
  • Toilets for disabled
  • Wheelchair access to some public areas
  • Wheelchairs available for loan
Schools services and facilities
  • Primary school education service available
  • Printed/audio-visual information available for schools
  • Education facilities available
Research and adult learning
  • Academic publications and resources available
  • Loan service
  • Library with public access
  • Study facilities

University College London
Malet Place
London
WC1E 6BT
England

Website

www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk/

E-mail

petrie.museum@ucl.ac.uk

Telephone

020 7679 2884

Fax

020 7679 2886

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

The collection is full of 'firsts': One of the earliest pieces of linen from Egypt (about 5000 BC); two lions from the temple of Min at Koptos, from the first group of monumental sculpture (about 3000 BC); a fragment from the first kinglist or calendar (about 2900 BC); the earliest example of metal from Egypt, the first worked iron beads, the earliest example of glazing, the earliest 'cylinder seal' in Egypt (about 3500 BC); the oldest wills on papyrus paper, the oldest gynaecological papyrus; the only veterinary papyrus from ancient Egypt, and the largest architectural drawing, showing a shrine (about 1300 BC).

More than these highlights, though, the collection is uniquely important because so much of it comes from documented excavations. The large typological series of objects (amulets, faience, objects of daily use, tools and weapons, weights and measures, stone vessels, jewellery) provide a unique insight into how people have lived and died in the Nile Valley.

Collection details

Archaeology, Archives, Costume and Textiles, Decorative and Applied Art, Natural Sciences, Personalities, Science and Technology, Weapons and War

Collections services

  • General guide to collections available
  • Object identification and/or written enquiry service
  • Public access available to collections information
  • Specialist publications on collections available
  • Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)

University College London
Malet Place
London
WC1E 6BT
England

Website

www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk/

E-mail

petrie.museum@ucl.ac.uk

Telephone

020 7679 2884

Fax

020 7679 2886

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
Exhibition details are listed below, you may need to scroll down to see them all.

Craft in the Countryside: Photographs from Fayoum University, Egypt

2 June — 29 August 2009 *on now

Researcher Ibrahim Abd el Baset Ibrahim presents images from a 2007 university project to record villagers in their life and work around Fayoum province, south of Cairo. Twenty photographs from five villages are selected to surround the archaeological displays of finds from work by Flinders petrie in the same part of Egypt a century ago.

Suitable for

  • All ages

When

1-5pm

Where

Petrie Museum

Admission

Free.

University College London
Malet Place
London
WC1E 6BT
England

Website

www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk/

E-mail

petrie.museum@ucl.ac.uk

Telephone

020 7679 2884

Fax

020 7679 2886

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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Sphinxes in the Park

18 July 2009

Discover more about the Ancient Egyptian Court at the Crystal palace in South London. Join us as we pass dinosaurs and the ruins of this Victorian vista to find the sphinxes in the park.

Suitable for

  • All ages

When

11am-12:30pm

Where

Petrie Museum

Admission

Free - pre-book via Debbie d.challis@ucl.ac.uk or 020 7679 4138.

University College London
Malet Place
London
WC1E 6BT
England

Website

www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk/

E-mail

petrie.museum@ucl.ac.uk

Telephone

020 7679 2884

Fax

020 7679 2886

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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