Petrie Memorial Lecture 5th September 2025
The Friends are delighted to announce that the Petrie Memorial Lecture will return on the 5th September 2025. It has been 25 years since the first Petrie Memorial Lecture in …
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 …
Petrie Museum: Co-Production Skills Exchange (September 2023)
This event was part of the Petrie Museum’s 18-month Tutankhamun the Boy: Growing Up in Ancient Egypt project. It brought together colleagues from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities from …
PMFExtra: Visions of Ancient Egypt
In December 2022, PMF member and regular contributor to our printed magazine, Susan Biddle visited the exhibition Visions of Ancient Egypt at the Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia. Susan’s very lively …
2022-3 PMF Extra: ‘Tutankhamun the Boy’ Goes to Egypt
Gemma Tully, Co-ordinator of the UCL Petrie Museum’s ‘Tutankhamun the Boy’ project, has provided a report about the principal activities and outcomes of fieldwork she and Anna Garnett undertook at …
Updated Logo
When the Friends of the Petrie Museum (PMF) was first established Barbara Adams, the curator of the Petrie Museum at that time, hand-drew a logo for exclusive use by the …