Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archeology
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology is a UCL teaching museum established in 1892, alongside the Department of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology. Its original collection began with a donation from the writer Amelia Edwards, and the museum’s early momentum came from the first Edwards Professor, William Matthew Flinders Petrie, whose excavations included Hawara and Amarna. In 1913, Petrie sold his Egyptian antiquities to University College, creating the Flinders Petrie Collection of Egyptian Antiquities and setting the museum on a path to national and international prominence. The collection was first put on display in June 1915, with an early guidebook published the same year, reflecting how, at first, it served mainly students and academics rather than the general public. …
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