Egyptian Museum No Longer Accepting Cultural Object Inquiries (For Now)

The Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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According to an email by the General Director of The Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the museum will not be in a position to respond to inquiries regarding any artifacts until June 2012. This information is important to anyone conducting provenance research relating to Egyptian cultural objects. The email appears below:

To whom it may concern,

Due to the current situation in Egypt, I regret to say that the

Registration, Collections Management and Documentation

Department (RCMDD) and the curatorial staff of the Egyptian

Museum, Cairo will not be accepting any new requests for

object information and images starting from 1 December, 2011

until 30 May, 2012. This is due to the huge backlog that was

created following the events of January 28th, as well as the

renovations that are currently happening in the Museum.

Information on objects from our collection can still be obtained by

accessing the intranet version of the Museum Database on the

computers dedicated to scholars in the RCMDD office, located in

the museum basement.  The department is open to scholars from

9:30 am until 2:00 pm, Sunday-Thursday.

Sincerely,

Dr. Tarek El Awady

General Director,

The Egyptian Museum, Cairo

Source: Egyptologists' Electronic Forum, forwarded by Dr. Yasmin El Shazly.

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