The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford opened six new galleries for the collections of Ancient Egypt and Nubia (present day Sudan), on Saturday 26 November 2011.

Coffin lid of Djeddjehutyiuefankh. Ashmolean Museum University of Oxford.

Building on the success of the Museum’s extension, which opened in 2009, this second phase of major redevelopment redisplays the world-renowned Egyptian collections to exhibit objects that have been in storage for decades, more than doubling the number of mummies and coffins on display. The galleries will take visitors on a chronological journey covering more than 5000 years of human occupation of the Nile Valley.

The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, located on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is the world’s first university museum. Its first building was built in 1678–1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities Elias Ashmole gave Oxford University in 1677.

Ashmolean Museum
Beaumont St
Oxford
OX1 2PH
www.ashmolean.org

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