Better digs for Liverpool’s mummies
The World Museum has won a £300,000 grant to expand its ancient Egypt gallery.
Liverpool’s mummies are about to get a space to call their own. Thanks to a £300,000 government grant, the city’s World Museum is set to expand its galleries dedicated to ancient Egypt to include a “mummy room”, as well as an animated Book of the Dead.
The expansion follows a successful bid for funding from the UK Department for Culture, Media, and Sport’s Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund.
The Art Newspaper
March 5, 2015
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In addition to enabling the museum to display around 4,000 objects, some of which have never been publicly shown before, the grant will be used to restore a gallery space that has been closed for 35 years, and which will now house 12 mummies, double the number currently on view. “Until now, space restrictions have limited us from showing the full scope of our collections,” said Steve Judd, the World Museum’s director, a press release.
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