2025 Handling Seminars
Our famous Friends of the Petrie Museum object handling sessions are returning! We are pleased to be starting up the 2025 series with someone very closely linked to the museum – Dr Alice Stevenson, …
PMFExtra 2
This issue presents two lecture reports and an article kindly supplied by three different sources: a PMF trustee; a former member of the Petrie Museum staff; one of our most regular PMF member reporters. …
Friends of the Petrie Museum Study Day: The provincial cemeteries of Rifeh – Saturday, 13 July 2024
Saturday, 13 July 2024 ***Please note the change of venue to Lecture Theatre 2, UCL Cruciform Building, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6AE*** A study day exploring the rich material from …
PMF Extra: Projecting Egypt
PMF member, Birgit Schoer, reports on a lecture about the unusual (for the PMF) but interesting topic: two pioneers of early 20th century stage and cinema, Fatima Rushdi (1908–1996) and Aziz Eid (1881–1942). …
Friday 23rd February – ‘A “kind of exploration or antiquity-dealing-business”: Egyptian archaeology and the Antiquities Trade 1880-1939’
Egyptological historiography has often focussed on the apparent scientific heroism of archaeologists, obscuring the reality that many of the same heroes were also active in the antiquities market, buying, and …
Projecting Egypt on Stage and Screen
In a special event held on 10 November 2023, the PMF explored and celebrated the enormous contribution of Fatima Rushdi and Aziz Eid to the development of Egyptian cinema and …
2023-24 Lecture Series
All lectures take place in Lecture Theatre G6, UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31 – 34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY, and will also be streamed on Zoom for those unable …