The Bowers Museum, which aims to "Celebrate world cultures through their arts", houses artefacts from around the world. Their have extensive collections of Pre-Columbian art, Art of the Pacific, and African art, and also a children's museum called the Kidseum.
The museum also hosts some big touring exhibitions, such as Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China’s First Emperor, Secret World of the Forbidden City, and Mummies: Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt…Treasures from the British Museum, and runs events.
The Bowers Museum is in Santa Ana, Orange County, California.
Petrie found this burial in 1908 in Thebes. The artefacts came to Scotland in 1909; a queen and a child, presumably her own. The symbols on the unidentified coffin stop at the point where the person’s name would be given, due to erosion of the plaster dating from thousands of years ago.
Dr. Bill Manley from National Museum of Scotland believes that, thanks to work with a range of other experts, he has discovered the likely identity of the woman. By looking at the shape of the coffin and studying the grave gifts academics have been able to date the burial to around 1550BC. A visit to Egypt in 2003 allowed Manley to use Petrie’s notes and maps to help pinpoint the location of the burial site further, but he failed to find the actual spot. Manley says:
The Ara Pacis Museum in Rome is a striking modern building designed by architect Richard Meier, which has been criticised for its lack of congruity with its historical surroundings.
It houses the Ara Pacis, or "Altar of Peace". The Ara Pacis is a stunning work of Roman art, which was discovered in the 1930s. It was commissioned in 13 BC to celebrate the return of Emperor Augustus from Gaul and Hispania.
Takabuti was analysed in Manchester by Professor Rosalie David and a team of scientists from The KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology, from the samples retrieved in May 2008 and also macroscopic analysis. Show Me The Mummy: The Face Of Takabuti, was a documentary filmed by BBC at that time, when she was being analysed and it has aired already in 2009 on UK TV.
Quoting Prof. David: "Our research at the University of Manchester specializes in applying scientific methods to examining Egyptian mummies, which preserve evidence of disease, diet, lifestyle, lifespan, status and religious practices. We were delighted to be invited to contribute to the investigation of Takabuti, and this film will show how the mummy was brought across to Manchester where she was x-rayed and CT-scanned; minute samples taken from the inside of the mummy were examined microscopically for evidence of disease; the teeth were studied; and tiny pieces of the hair were analyzed to see if it had been dyed or if she was a natural blonde."
Caroline Wilkinson from the University of Dundee created a 3D reconstruction of the mummy.
Mid-2012 was confirmed last week as the projected point of opening for the Grand Egyptian Museum, as pen was put to paper on a deal between the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) and engineering firms Hill International and EHAF Consulting Engineers to commence work on stage three of Egypt’s new cultural mecca.
Egyptian culture minister Farouk Hosni looked on as Dr Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the SCA, and Raouf Ghali, board chairman of Hill International, signed the deal. Hosni stated that it will take 26 months to complete the massive building project, in the desert west of Cairo at Giza, just two kilometres from the pyramids.
The Hands on History Museum is dedicated to the story of the city of Hull, in the north east of England, and its people. It's housed in a grade-A listed old red-brick grammar school. It's also well-known for its collection of early replicas from the tomb of King Tut, which in their early days attracted the ire of the discoverer of Tutankhamun's tomb, Howard Carter.
The ground floor of the Hands on History houses Victorian Britain - a Victorian themed hands-on interactive exhibition which includes a mock-up of a Victorian school room. The first floor is home to The Story of Hull and its People. The Ancient Egypt display features the mummy of a real ancient Egyptian priest, plus a number of replicas of items found in the tomb of the famous pharaoh Tutunkhamun in 1922.
The Luxor Museum is a small, purpose-built museum in the Egyptian city of Luxor (ancient Thebes). Inaugurated in 1975, it stands on the corniche, overlooking the west bank of the River Nile in the city centre.
After the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the Luxor Museum holds the largest collection of items from Tutankhamun's tomb, KV62, in the world. These include his hunting chariot, and various votive weapons. Other key pieces include 26 well-preserved New Kingdom statues, found buried in a cache at Luxor Temple in 1989, the royal mummies of Ahmose I and Ramesses I, and a calcite double statue of the crocodile god Sobek and pharaoh Amenhotep III. Another major attractions is a reconstruction of one of the walls of Akhenaten's temple at Karnak.
The Luxor Museum features a far smaller collection than the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, but this is intentional - the Luxor Museum prides itself on showing a limited number of important pieces in a clear and uncluttered way, with multi-lingual labelling, that does them the best possible justice. The museum is regularly complemented by tourists as presenting a pleasant contrast to the clamour of the over-crowded Egyptian Museum.
The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is a long-planned new central museum complex for Cairo and Egypt, intended to replace the Egyptian Museum - founded in 1902 - as the main venue for the country's abundant heritage treasures. It'll be sited on 50 hectares of land in Giza, as a core part of a new master plan for the plateau.
The GEM project began as far back as 1992, but has been slow in coming to fruition - the foundation stone was only laid a decade later, and the museum isn't expected to be opened until as early as mid-2012. It'll be a massive structure once completed - shaped like a chamfered triangle, with a stone roof, the GEM will boast 100,000 square metres of floor space – the size of 11 football pitches – with provision for up to 100,000 artefacts at full capacity. It's expected to cost in the region of $550 million.
Tate Britain is the national gallery of British art. Located in London, on the north bank of the River Thames at Millbank, south west of the city centre and not far from the Houses of Parliament, it is one of the family of four Tate galleries which display selections from the Tate Collection.
Tate Britain is the world centre for the understanding and enjoyment of British art and works actively to promote interest in British art internationally. The displays at Tate Britain call on the greatest collection of British art in the world to present an unrivalled picture of the development of art in Britain from the time of the Tudor monarchs in the sixteenth century, to the present day.
Mid-2012 was confirmed last week as the projected point of opening for the 
