Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
A UCL museum holding over 80,000 objects of Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology, one of the largest and most important collections of its kind outside Egypt itself.
- Museum
- Price: Free
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Did you know
The collection only reached this scale because excavator William Flinders Petrie sold his own huge personal haul of antiquities to UCL in 1913. It includes the world's largest collection of Roman-period mummy portraits and a piece of linen dating to roughly 5000 BC.
Local tip
It's a dense, old-fashioned cabinet-style museum rather than a modern interactive one. Go with a specific interest (mummy portraits, early textiles) rather than trying to take in all 80,000 objects at once.
Finding it
- Address
- Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archeology, Malet Place, Bloomsbury, London Borough of Camden, Greater London, England, WC1E 6BT
- Nearest station
- Goodge Street (Tube), 313 m away
Details change, so check with the place before you set off.
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