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INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF MUSEUMS CONSEIL INTERNATIONAL DES MUSEES e-News | 2015 | 03 Editorial — Gabriele Pieke everal members of CIPEG organisers of the Congress, who have S recently met in Turin, Italy, to kindly agreed to include such a session participate in the grand reopening in the official conference programme. of the Museo Egizio. This wonderful and unique collection is finally Further planning is related to the ICOM visible again and we congratulate General Conference 2016 in Milan, Italy. our colleagues at the museum on Linked with this, CIPEG will meet next their efforts. The opportunity was year at the Museo Civicio Archeologico taken to hold a meeting of the CIPEG in Bologna for a workshop on “Museums board, the most important item on as Egyptological Landscapes”. There Crush of people at the opening of the the agenda being the organisation of are thus a number of forthcoming Museo Egizio di Torino . © Fondazione future conferences. In addition to the occasions for members and friends of Museo Della Antichita’ Egizie di Torino. official annual meeting in Munich in CIEPG to gather. September, an informal meeting of projects, exhibitions, conferences or colleagues involved in museum work We further invite colleagues to publications. n is planned as part of the International contribute in the next issues of the Congress of Egyptologists in August in CIPEG e-News and look forward to > cipeg.icom.museum Florence. Thanks are already due to the receiving your articles on museums, > Facebook CIPEG Annual Conference in Munich, 1-4 September 2015 From historism to the multimedia age Content - Concept - Design of Egyptian Museums and Collections he annual CIPEG Meeting 2015 The CIPEG Conference 2015 is to be a paper, please also write to the T will be hosted by the new not only a forum for the discussion of conference office. Please see the call for Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer recent developments and projects for papers for further information. n Kunst München, which was the future, but also for the presentation inaugurated in June 2013. of historical changes in Egyptian > Conference office museums; attention is also to be given to > Call for papers The world of museums is characterized current trends in the field of temporary © Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer by new buildings and extensions; exhibitions. A special workshop will Kunst München Egyptian collections have undergone review the interaction of object, design many changes during the last few and architecture, including practical decades, Berlin, Brooklyn, Copenhagen, aspects such as labelling, lighting Florence, Leiden, London, Naples, and the application of digital media. Turin being just a few of the largest A museological tour through various ones. Often established in existing newly-built or refurbished museums in historic buildings and integrated into the Munich area will embed the theme multidisciplinary institutions, Egyptian into a broader scope. collections and displays take many different forms and also fulfil a range of The deadline for submitting abstracts is functions in their locality’s cultural and 15 June 2015. If you wish to attend the educational scene. annual meeting without presenting INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF MUSEUMS e-News | 2015 | 03 CONSEIL INTERNATIONAL DES MUSEES “Taharqa – The Black Pharaoh” Exhibition at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, 9 April - 28 June 2015 — Tine Bagh he exhibition begins with an T introduction to the relationship between Egypt and Nubia, illustrated by two Nubian heads in the far corner of the Glyptotek’s large Egyptian Hall. Through donations from the Ny Carlsberg Foundation, the museum acquired finds from the excavations of John Garstang in Meroë during 1910– 12 and of F. Ll. Griffith in Kawa during 1930–31. The Kawa finds come mainly from the Napatan Period, while the Meroë finds are from the Meroitic and Post-Meroitic Periods, so that a Nubian From the large Egyptian Hall, the three small finds from Kawa from the exhibition based on these two groups exhibition continues into four smaller National Museum of Denmark. The of objects naturally concentrates on the rooms, the first two introducing later reclining man is accompanied by Post- late Nubian history. The 25th Dynasty, Nubian chronology and focussing on Meroitic tomb finds of pottery, thumb exemplified by the most prominent Taharqa and his Temple T. In the first rings and faience necklaces. pharaoh, Taharqa, is chosen as the (round) room, a palm column in the focal point through the title ‘Taharqa middle is flanked by a headless statue Some of the sculptures were previously – The Black Pharaoh’. A loan from the of Taharqa and a baboon with raised displayed in the large Egyptian Hall British Museum of the Taharqa sphinx, arms. Walking into the next room, one among the Egyptian sculptures, but it from Temple T in Kawa like most of the meets the Taharqa sphinx eye to eye, is the first time that the Nubian finds Glyptotek’s Kawa finds, is the ‘face’ of the piece being accompanied by four in the Glyptotek have been presented the show: a fine Egyptian sphinx with large stelae. All four were damaged together in the context of the history an African face. in transport from Sudan in 1931, with of Nubia. A publication has been the two larger and more broken stelae produced to accompany the exhibition now restored for the current exhibition. – T. Bagh, Finds from the Excavations of The two other rooms encompass later, J. Garstang in Meroe and F.Ll. Griffith in Meroitic, history and themes such as Kawa in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. n religion, Egypto-Nubian iconography and burial customs. The scene is set > www.glyptoteket.dk/ in all four rooms by large photos of landscapes and sites taken in Sudan in November 2014 by the photographer Janne Klerk. The last two rooms are dominated by a large sandstone statue of the Nubian Taharqa god Sebiumeker, and a reclining Den Sorte man from the so-called Royal Bath in Farao Meroë. Sebiumeker is accompanied 10.4 - 28.6 by Egyptian gods: a relief of Bes and figurines of Amun, Osiris, Harpocrates, a falcon headed god and others. The latter are in a showcase together with Tirsdag-søndag 11-18, torsdag 11-22 Egyptian amulets and symbols, plus Glyptoteket Gratis adgang hver tirsdag INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF MUSEUMS e-News | 2015 | 03 CONSEIL INTERNATIONAL DES MUSEES A Cosmopolitan City: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Old Cairo A temporary exhibit at the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago — Emily Teeter n February 17, 2015, the Oriental Vorderstrasse. She noted spectacular people who lived there. These I Institute Museum opened one of manuscripts, including part of the recordings include people describing the first exhibits to focus on Fustat, archive of Qurra ibn Sharik, the governor their city and everyday experiences, a city founded in AD 614 that was of Fustat in the early 8th century, which music, selections from the writings later absorbed into Cairo. The overall although published in the 1930s, had of the 12th century poet Moses ben theme of the show is to demonstrate largely been forgotten, and Hebrew Abraham Dari, and the daily routine through manuscripts, ceramics, and and Judeo-Arabic manuscripts that of the famed 12th century physician objects of daily life how Christians, originated in Cairo’s Ben Ezra Genizah. Moses Maimonides. The audio can also Jews, and Muslims lived together to Many of the 75 objects in the exhibit be accessed on the museums’ YouTube create a vibrant multi-cultural society. were excavated at Fustat by George channel. The exhibit is co-curated by Tasha Scanlon for the American Research Vorderstrasse and Tanya Treptow. Center in Egypt in the mid-1960s. They The exhibit design evokes architecture were later given to the Oriental Institute of Cairo, with a pavilion in which An exhibit on early Islamic Egypt by the Akron Art Museum. Few of the documents from the communities are organized by and presented at the objects have ever been exhibited. The exhibited, and walls decorated in faux Oriental Institute may be a surprise to artifacts from the permanent collection ablaq (striped masonry) with grilled those who know the Chicago museum are joined by loans from the Walters Art windows. primarily for its comprehensive Museum (Baltimore) including an 11th collection of artifacts from the ancient century wood door of the Ark from the A fully illustrated catalog with essays Middle East, Egypt, and Nubia. In Ben Ezra Synagogue. by scholars throughout the world is fact, the Institute has an important available in hard copy, and also for collection of Islamic objects, including The show is divided into sections a free pdf download through the the oldest known written fragment of addressing the different communities; Institute’s special exhibit website. The Thousand and One Nights dating the administration; industry and trade; dress Through September 13, 2015. n to the 9th century. and adornment; entertainment; food and hospitality. Audio features in the > http://oi.uchicago.edu The exhibit was the result of a survey exhibit allow the visitor to hear voices of the museum’s Islamic holdings of Old Cairo through modern readings conducted by exhibit co-curator Tasha of the thoughts and memories of the Fustat exhibit. Left to right, cases on dining and hospitality; dress and adornment, and the home. The ipad allows the visitor to View of the exhibit A Cosmopolitan City: Muslims, Christians, “Hear Voices of Old Cairo,” including contemporary descriptions and Jews in Old Cairo. The pavilion evokes architecture of the of the city, and a letter from a concerned mother to her son. medieval city. Photo: The Oriental Institute, Anna Ressmann. Photo: The Oriental Institute, Anna Ressmann. INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF MUSEUMS e-News | 2015 | 03 CONSEIL INTERNATIONAL DES MUSEES The Harvard Semitic Museum — Peter Der Manuelian Semitic Museum reated in 1889, the Harvard special lectures are now recorded from the Giza tomb of Queen Hetepheres C Semitic Museum (HSM) embodies and posted on the Museum’s lecture (wife of Snefru, mother of Khufu; Dynasty the vision of its founder and first page, and we hope eventually to 4).

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