Egypt Centre

University of Wales Swansea
Singleton Park
Swansea
West Glamorgan
SA2 8PP
Wales

Website

www.swan.ac.uk/egypt/

E-mail

c.a.graves-brown@swansea.ac.uk

Telephone

01792 295960

Fax

01792 295899

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 Egypt Centre houses one of the top six collections of Egyptian antiquities in the United Kingdom. The museum, officially opened in September 1998, has a collection of over 3,000 Egyptian antiquities once owned by the manufacturing pharmacist Sir Henry Wellcome (1853-1936). The museum comprises of two galleries called The House of Life and The House of Death and a gift shop. There is a cafe/coffee shop adjacent to the museum.

Venue Type:

Museum, Archaeological site

 Opening hours

Tues-Sat 1000-1600

Sun-Mon & Bank holidays Closed

 Admission charges

Free
£2 a head for school party and group organised activities
£1 a head specially organised open hours guided tours
£2 a head evening guided tours

 General services and facilities
  • Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
  • Foreign language leaflet or brochure available
  • General audio-guide available
  • Guided tours
  • Information point provided
  • Pre-booking service for groups
  • Cafeteria
  • Parking for coaches
  • Refreshments
  • Restaurant
  • Shop
 Children and families
  • Activities for pre-school children
  • Events and resources for children and families
 Disability access
  • Audio guides specifically for blind and partially sighted people
  • Braille information and/or interpretation
  • Events/teaching/resources for people with disabilities
  • Large print information and/or interpretation
  • Touch exhibits
  • Parking for disabled available
  • Toilets for disabled
  • Wheelchair access to all public areas
 Schools services and facilities
  • Direct teaching services for schools
  • Member of staff available with responsibility for education
  • Primary school education service available
  • Printed/audio-visual information available for schools
  • Secondary school education service available
  • Education facilities available
  • Reception and lunch facilities for educational groups
 Research and adult learning
  • Adult lectures and courses held
  • Teaching/resources available for HE/FE students
  • Library
  • Mail order service available
  • Research facilities for academics
  • Study facilities
 Commercial and hire services
  • Facilities for private functions and events
  • Meeting room available

University of Wales Swansea
Singleton Park
Swansea
West Glamorgan
SA2 8PP
Wales

Website

www.swan.ac.uk/egypt/

E-mail

c.a.graves-brown@swansea.ac.uk

Telephone

01792 295960

Fax

01792 295899

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 consists of some 3,000 Egyptian antiquities and covers the time span of c4000 BC- AD 500. Some 250 objects derive from the Egyptian Exploration Fund excavations at Tell el-Amarna, as well as Armant. Objects include the painted coffin of a lady musician from Thebes, beautiful bead necklaces from the time of Tutankhamun and a mummified crocodile.

Collection details

Archaeology, Costume and Textiles, Design, Medicine, Personalities, Religion, Science and Technology, Social History, Sport, Toys and Hobbies, Trade and Commerce, Weapons and War, World Cultures

Key artists and exhibits

  • As well as the objects, there are various hands-on activities for children young and old. This includes dressing up and learning about the picture writing, hieroglyphs, and calculating using the ancient Egyptian maths and measuring systems. Visitors enjoy playing the game of senet, which was a popular Egyptian board game. Visitors are allowed to handle real ancient Egyptian objects some are 50,000 years old! Children enjoy learning the art of mummification and pull the brain and organs out of a model mummy and bandage it. We have noticed adults go a bit pale but children love this activity! They also make clay food offerings for the mummy.

Collections services

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

University of Wales Swansea
Singleton Park
Swansea
West Glamorgan
SA2 8PP
Wales

Website

www.swan.ac.uk/egypt/

E-mail

c.a.graves-brown@swansea.ac.uk

Telephone

01792 295960

Fax

01792 295899

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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