Your task in this assessment is to write a 500 word review of one room or gallery in the British Museum, London, for the Centre for Cultural Heritage and Environment website.
THE BRITISH MUSEUM, LONDON | https://www.britishmuseum.org/
Cropped color photograph of the Great Court in the British Museum, London. Image from Max Pixel.
To complete this task please visit the galleries of the British Museum, London, which display cultural objects and remains of Egyptian and Near Eastern origin.
In developing your review, you will need to analyze and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of your chosen room/s from the British Museum, because you need to explain why equitable and accessible representation in museums is important for contemporary archaeology AND for Indigenous communities.
Explore and write your critical review based on your analysis of ONE (1) of the galleries listed below:
Egyptian Sculpture | Room 4
Egyptian Life and Death | Room 61
Egyptian death and afterlife: mummies | Rooms 62-63
Early Egypt | Room 64
Sudan, Egypt and Nubia | Room 65
Ethiopia and Coptic Egypt | Room 66
GUIDELINES
The review for the Centre for Cultural Heritage and Environment website should provide a critical analysis of the representations, aims, and limits of the choices made by the curators in your chosen room/s and refer to the required resources listed below.
Consider the following structure and word limits for your submission:
PART 1 | The Museum context?
PART 2 | Whose voices and stories?
PART 3 | What information is included and excluded?
Part 4 | Concluding remarks
In your conclusion, based on your analysis in Parts 1-3 above, account for: whose past is represented and for whom?
