The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in London is run by the Institute of Archaeology, which is part of the University of London. Greater London and the Regions of England. ... The Institute of Archaeology is an academic department of University College London (UCL), in the United Kindom. ... Senate House, designed by Charles Holden home to the universitys central administration offices and its library The University of London, founded in 1836, is a federation of colleges which together constitute one of the worlds largest universities. ...

The museum was established as a teaching resource for the Department of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology at University College London at the same time as the department was established in 1892. The initial collection was gifted by the writer Amelia Edwards. The first Edwards Professor, William Flinders Petrie conducted many important excavations, and in 1913 he sold his collections of Egyptian antiquities to University College, transforming the museum into one of the leading collections outside Egypt. The museum now has 80,000 items. Since the early 1950s it has been housed in a former stables building, and it is now open to the public several days a week. The Front Quad University College London, commonly known as UCL, is one of the colleges that make up the University of London. ... Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards (7 June 1831 _ 15 April 1892) was an English novelist, journalist, lady traveller and Egyptologist. ... Egyptologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (3 June 1853 - 28 July 1942) was a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology. ...

University College is currently working to create a new building which will house the Petrie Museum and also serve as a public entrance to the college as a whole. This building, which will be called the The Panopticon, will also have space for temporary exhibitions, a café, lecture facilities, a reading room and a display area for the University of London's collection of rare books and manuscripts. Three floors will be devoted to the Petrie Museum, and for the first time the entire collection will be on display or in visible storage. Senate House, designed by Charles Holden home to the universitys central administration offices and its library The University of London, founded in 1836, is a federation of colleges which together constitute one of the worlds largest universities. ...

External link

Official site (http://www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk/)