The Garstang Museum of Archaeology
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Garstang Museum of Archaeology
University of Liverpool,
14 Abercromby Square,
Liverpool
L69 1WZ
United Kingdom
Telephone - +44 (0)151 794 2467
Fax - +44 (0)151 794 2442
University of Liverpool,
14 Abercromby Square,
Liverpool
L69 1WZ
United Kingdom
Telephone - +44 (0)151 794 2467
Fax - +44 (0)151 794 2442
Email garstang@liv.ac.uk
John Garstang and his assistant Harold Jones, working at Beni Hasan in 1904
©Garstang Museum of Archaeology, University of Liverpool.
©Garstang Museum of Archaeology, University of Liverpool.
The Garstang Museum and its Collections
The Garstang Museum of Archaeology in the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology (SACE) at the University of Liverpool honours Professor John Garstang, whose excavations in Egypt, Sudan, Turkey and the Levant produced the majority of our extensive archaeological collections. Between 1904-1914 Garstang’s work at the cemeteries of Beni Hasan, Esna and Abydos in Upper Egypt unearthed a wealth of objects from burials of all periods of Egyptian civilisation, while his work at Naqada and Hierakonpolis is critical for our understanding of the earliest phase of Egyptian history. The Garstang Museum also contains objects from outside Egypt; from Meroe in the Sudan, Jericho in the Levant, and Sakje Geuzi in Anatolia.
Pocket sundial from Meroe
©Garstang Museum of Archaeology,
©Garstang Museum of Archaeology,
University of Liverpool.
The Museum displays some of the key objects in our collection, while we are always happy to make our reserve collections and extensive documentary material available to researchers.
How to Find Us
The Garstang Museum can be found on the second floor of SACE at 14 Abercromby Square, Liverpool. For a map of the campus, showing our location, click here
Opening Hours
Our opening hours are 2.00 pm - 4.30 pm on Wednesday afternoons during term time, and 9.30 am - 4.30 pm on the first Friday of every month (excepting Bank Holidays). We can open the Museum for visitors outside these hours, by appointment. We also welcome groups of schoolchildren or interested adults.
Pot with the face of the god Bes, excavated at Esna ©Garstang Museum of Archaeology,
University of Liverpool.
For further details please see our website (www.liv.ac.uk/sace/facilities/museum.htm), email us (garstang@liv.ac.uk) or call us on 0151 794 2467