Past ACCES Workshops
Please use the following links to view reports and skills-sharing documents from past ACCES workshops:
ACCES and Petrie Museum Papyrus Workshop
ACCES Workshop and AGM 2017. Casts, Models and Reproductions
Curator’s Top Tips: Exhibitions on a Budget
ACCES Workshop and AGM 2016. Exhibiting Egypt: Ancient Histories, Modern Interpretations
Egyptology in the North-West: Contextualising your Collection
ACCES Distribution Lists Report
Egyptian and Sudanese collections resources
Cornucopia: an online database of information about more than 6,000 collections in the UK’s museums, galleries, archives and libraries
Digital Egypt for Universities: an online resource drawing on the collections of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology created in 2000-2003.
Egypt Exploration Society: the Society continues to support projects in Egypt and houses an important archive of its excavations since its founding in 1882.
UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: contains archives relating to the work of the British School of Archaeology in Egypt (BSAE), the Egyptian Research Account (ERA) and Flinders Petrie’s independently sponsored excavations.
Artefacts of Excavation: AHRC-funded collaborative project based at the University of Oxford, mapping the distribution of objects from British excavations in Egypt from 1880-1980
Regional ACCES Resources
North West
Egypt at World Museum Liverpool
Scotland
Egypt at National Museums Scotland
Wales
Views of an Antique Land: Imaging Egypt and Palestine in the First World War
Egypt Centre, Swansea: Search the Collections
Funding streams and Awards
The Jodi Awards: for best use of technology to widen access to information, learning, collections and creativity for disabled people in museums, libraries, archives and heritage
Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund: run by the Museums Association, focuses on time-limited collections work outside the scope of an organisation’s core resources
Daphne Bullard Trust: Grants of up to £1000 for textile conservation and display
See also:
The Museums Association ‘Museums Practice’ page for advice on fundraising
The Association of Independent Museums list of Sources of External Funding, containing over 40 key grant-making organisations
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