LECTURE: Museum Registration: Implementing Improved Collections Management at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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Date: Saturday, January 8, 2011, 5:00pm
Chapter: Illinois
Speaker: Alan Francisco, Registrar, Department of Anthropology, The Field Museum, Chicago
Location: The Oriental Institute
Description: This presentation will describe the formation of the Egyptian Museum's new Registration, Collections Management, and Documentation Department under the directive of the country's Supreme Council of Antiquities, with training provided by the American Research Center in Egypt and funding by the US Agency for International Development and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This 4-year project, concluded in October of 2010, was a significant achievement in Egypt's ongoing efforts to develop better methods for protecting its cultural heritage. Mr. Francisco worked on the project in 2009-2010.
This free lecture is held at the Oriental Institute, LaSalle Bank Room. 1155 East 58th Street, Chicago, 60637.
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