Collections at Risk

Claire Derriks is Curator Emeritus at the Royal Museum of Mariemont, Belgium and Professor at the Royal Institute for History of Art and Archaeology, Brussels.

... 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'

• AcknowledgmentsForeword, Ehab FawzyPreface, Luc DelvauxAbbreviationsContributorsIntroduction, Maarten J. RavenCollections at Risk:Cultural Heritage Preservation - Regine SchulzMuseums in Danger and How They Can Survive - Anna-Maria RavagnanTraining against Attacks on Cultural Heritage - Marek ChlodnickiTell el-Farkha: The Life of Discovered Objects after the Excavations - Badrya SerryThe Role of the Antiquities Museum in Preserving the Archaeological Heritage of Alexandria, Egypt - Luc DelvauxSauvés des flames: destruction et reconstruction de sculptures monumentales de la collection égyptienne des Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Bruxelles - Christian E. LoebenCollections 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 BaghPharaoh's Palace: From the Ruins of Memphis to Copenhagen - Arnaud QuertinmontLes collections égyptiennes et proche-orientales du Musée royal de Mariemont: Risques encourus et préventions de ceux-ci - Mohamed Ismael BadawiNew Methods of Handling and Care of Collections in the Grand Egyptian Museum and the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization - Willem Van HaarlemThe Papyrus Puzzle, or How to Unlock a Random Papyrus Collection? - Hedvig GyoryEgyptology and Museum Education: The Budapest Program "On the Field of Osiris" as a Tool for Preserving Cultural Heritage - Paula VeigaA Rescue from Oblivion - Simone Burger RobinGraywacke: A Case Study for the Accurate Use of Appropriate Stone TerminologyCollections, History, and Renovation - Eugène WarmenbolSarah Belzoni and Her Mummy: Notes on the Early History of the Egyptian Collection in Brussels - Ben van den BerckenAegyptiaca Incognita: The Birth, Development, and Use of University Collections with Ancient Egyptian Objects in Northwest Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Sabina MalgoraHighlighting the Camillo Leone Egyptian Collection - Carmen Pérez-Die and Esther Pons MelladoThe New Installation of the Egyptian and Nubian Rooms in the Museo Arqueologico Nacional (National Archaeological Museum), Madrid, Spain  - Mladen TomoradThe Ancient Egyptian Collections in Croatia and the Project Croato-Aegyptica ElectronicaSubject Index