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Events at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
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UNCOVERING THE HIDDEN LEGACY OF ANCIENT EGYPT: AN AFRICAN CIVILISATION Date: Tues 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 May & 12, 19, 26 June | Time: 6-8.30pm | Location: Petrie Museum | Price: £100 for 8 weeks Book via Jacinth Martin at CSEP on 0208 686 7865 or email jacinth.martin@csep.org.uk | Age group: Older teens / Adults | The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in partnership with Croydon Supplementary Education Project (CSEP) is pleased to announce the return of this evening short course. Robin Walker, author of seminal When We Ruled, will be teaching this fascinating eight session programme.
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13 AMULETS: BASKETRY PLUS Date: 1-31 May | Time: Museum Opening Times | Location: Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology | Price: Free | Age group: Any | Basketry Plus is a group of artists and makers who share a common interest in and a passion for basketry. Our aim is to push the concept of basketmaking forward and to introduce the craft to a wider audience. Taking our inspiration from the many and varied objects in the Petrie’s collection, the thirteen members of Basketry Plus will each weave a piece of work that explores and re-interprets the amulet.
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ROYALTY AND POWER IN ANCIENT EGYPT: HALF-TERM FAMILY ACTIVITIES Date: 6 & 7 June | Time: 2-4pm | Location: Petrie Museum | Price: Free - drop in! | Age group: Family & Children 7-11 | There were Diamond Jubilees in Ancient Egypt too. Find out about long serving Pharaohs in Egypt and emblems of royal power then make your own Egyptian crown. Drop in!
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CINEMATIC NECROPOLIS: EGYPT IN NE LONDON WALK Date: 16 June | Time: 11am - 12.30pm | Location: Essex Rd / Stoke Newington | Price: Free. Book via http://cinematicnecropolis.eventbrite.com/ | Age group: Any | Join us as we explore two 'Egyptian style' sites from different epochs in North East London. Starting with the exterior of the old Carlton Cinema (1930) on the Essex Road before we travel back (on public transport c. 30 min) almost 100 years to the gates of Abney Park Cemetery.
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FIT? Date: 19 June | Time: 6.30-7.30pm | Location: Petrie Museum | Price: Free | Age group: Any | Whose is better - the Ancient Greek or Ancient Egyptian sculpted body? Is there a difference? And why are the Ancient Greeks so linked to sports when the Egyptians did it first? Join Chris Naunton (EES) and Debbie Challis (Petrie, UCL) for a debate on these issues.
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL GHOST STORIES: MR JAMES Date: 19 July | Time: 6.30-8pm (Doors open at 6pm) | Location: Petrie Museum | Price: Free. Book via http://archaeologicalghosts.eventbrite.com/ | Age group: Any | Gabriel Moshenska (UCL) explores the archaeological uncanny in a talk on the writer M R James' little known involvement with archaeology and his more famous ghost stories. This will be a followed by a reading by Mark Hassall of James' 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'.
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EGYPTIAN MAUSOLEUM: SW LONDON WALK Date: 21 July | Time: 10.30am - 1pm | Location: Mortlake / St Margarets | Price: £7 or £5 for Friends of the Petrie Museum or Friends of the Petrie Museum or Museum of Richmond | Age group: Any | Find out more about the Egyptian and Eastern inspired tombs of two eccentric Victorians in South West London / Surrey. Join us at Mortlake as we visit the tomb of the explorer Richard Burton and then follow us (on the train / public transport) to Kilmorey Mausoleum for a guided tour of this tomb and natural park.
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