CLASSICS/HISTORY 230L: ANCIENT EGYPT WORLD MUSEUMS PROJECT
You should write up your World Museums Project in any word processing program, save your document
in a standard format (.doc, .docx, .rtf, .txt are all fine; avoid saving it as a .pdf or .pages document) and
upload into the assignment found on Blackboard in the World Museums Project area of the course menu.
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STEP 1. Your assignment is to virtually “visit” 4 international museums with renowned Egyptian
collections:
• the British Museum in London,
• the Louvre Museum in Paris,
• the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and
• the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Use the url links provided below to get started:
British Museum – http://www.britishmuseum.org/
search highlight objects from the Egyptian collection
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?searchText=egypt&image
s=true&to=ad&toDate=300
Louvre Museum – http://www.louvre.fr/en
search Egyptian antiquities – http://www.louvre.fr/en/departments/egyptian-antiquities
highlights of Egyptian collection http://www.louvre.fr/en/departments/egyptian-
antiquities/highlights#tabs
The Metropolitan Museum of Art – http://www.metmuseum.org/
Met Museum – browse and search the Egyptian collection –
http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/highlights-of-the-collection?deptids=10&pg=1
University of Pennsylvania Museum – http://www.penn.museum/
Egyptian objects on display –
http://www.penn.museum/collections/search.php?term=Egypt&submit_term=Submit+Query&images[]=y
es&on_display[]=yes
STEP 2. Pick one ancient Egyptian object from each museum, making sure that all 4 objects are linked
by a common thread: they must be the same or similar type of object, share the same or similar function,
and say something about a single topic or theme in Egyptian archaeology, art, society, religion, etc.
Begin your assignment by putting your name at the top of the page. Then, provide a list of your 4 objects
including (for each individual object):
• the url link from the museum’s website,
• the title of the object as supplied by the museum’s website
• the registration/accession/object number as supplied by the museum’s website
So, the start of your World Museums Project should look like this if you were using the 4 objects
illustrated at the end of this document (information in italic font is provided for instructional purposes on
how/where to find the object’s number):
o (see the illustrated instructions at the end of this document for details on this)