Fatma Hegab curator in the Egyptian Museum THE INTERNATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAM OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM

All of the participants from 2007 with the British Museum’s director Neil Macgregor. My existence in that group added a lot to me. Because it included different nationalities which gave the chance to know others, exchange the cultures and make friends. It was one of the most important and things in this training program.

The British museum

The great court of the British Museum The training program started from the British Museum which considered one of the major museums in the history and culture of humans as it contains more than 13 million pieces from all continents.

The Egyptian section So everyone took the chance to learn more about his civilization and finds the others civilizations too through the displaying of antiquities in a good style allow to the visitor and student to see and enjoy without distraction

Dr Richard Parkinson in the Egyptian Department’s Papyrus Storage Room my visit to papyrus storage room and the explanation of Dr. Richard gave me a great experience about the restoration of papyrus

Victoria & Albert PetrieAshmoleanFitzwilliam The training program included some visits to others museums in and outside London such as the Petrie Museum, Victoria & Albert, Fitzwilliam in Cambridge and Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. The aim of it was the breadth of knowledge and meeting with peculiar academic persons, i still in touch with them while They offer to me assistance in the field of my study

London eye Kew garden The training program included trips and visiting some features of London, such as London eye and the Nile Cruise which led us to Kew Garden which was the most beautiful garden I ever see

Kelvingrove Art Gallery Museum

After ending of the training program in the British Museum we started another training program but outside London, I was one of the small group who went to Glasgow, and how I was lucky, because Scotland is ancient country. I visited there number of museums, but the most important one was Kelvingerove art gallery museum in Glasgow, its wonderful museum collect all the kinds of arts. There I had seen the best displaying ways of Egyptian antiquities where there are the objects and beside their a small screen showing a illustration film about how to use these objects in ancient Egypt.

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