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ACCES partners lend to an exhibition at the Museum of St Albans
15th Dec, 2006 to 10th Jun, 2007
Life and Death in Ancient Egypt. Museum of St Albans. Saturday 14th October 2006 – Sunday 10th June 2007. Admission free.
Back by popular demand, the world of the Ancient Egyptians is on display at the Museum of St Albans. With loans from Manchester, Bolton, Ipswich, Birmingham, Derby and Leicester Museums, the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge and the Egypt Exploration Society, as well as material from our own collections, there will be a lot to see and do. The exhibition will look at the lives of the Egyptians and the jobs available to them, from farmers and fishermen, potters and weavers, and other skilled and well-paid craftsmen to the civil service scribes who wrote the accounts and recorded the royal histories. Home life, leisure and social activities such as hunting, gaming and festivals are all featured, while the Egyptians’ attitudes to death and their hopes of eternal life in the next world are explored.
The centrepiece of the exhibition is a painted coffin, with it's original mummified occupant. For more information, see http://www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/temp_exhibitions.htm
