Talk:List of museums with Egyptian mummies in their collections

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On 3 December 2023, it was proposed that this article be moved to List of museums with Egyptian Mummies in their collections. The result of the discussion was Moved to List of museums with Egyptian mummies in their collections.

Requested move 3 December 2023[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved to List of museums with Egyptian mummies in their collections. (closed by non-admin page mover) -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH) 18:29, 10 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

List of museums with Egyptian Mummies on display → List of museums with Egyptian Mummies in their collections – Means we don't have to track mummies being rotated off display (or simply removed pitt rivers was very quiet with their removal for example) and deaccessioning is more likely to get coverage in reliable sources ©Geni (talk) 01:40, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support List of museums with Egyptian mummies in their collections. No reason to capitalise "mummies". Although frankly I'm not sure of the value of this article at all. Many museums have mummies in their collection. Most are not listed here. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:02, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Once the name settles down I have the sources on hand to expand it a lot at least for the UK.©Geni (talk) 08:45, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support without the capitalised mummies. Search on google reveals mostly uncapitalised mummies in search results. – robertsky (talk) 05:35, 10 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Peten-Amun[edit]

Can't work out if he is still at the Durban Natural Science Museum or has been moved to egypt. Lot of articules saying it was going to happen then a few about a delay and then nothing.©Geni (talk) 21:04, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sudan[edit]

Sudan National Museum has sudanese mummies that are often lumped in with egyptian mummies. Should we include it:

https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2023/06/reports-of-cultural-destruction-and-looting-as-fighting-escalates-in-sudan/

©Geni (talk) 22:22, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Abbey library of Saint Gall[edit]

Is home to Shep-en-Isis but not technically a museum.©Geni (talk) 22:44, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Bristol[edit]

Horemkenesi was unwrapped in 1981. Are his remains still there?©Geni (talk) 18:06, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW Bristol unambiguously still has two mummies in its collection https://museums.bristol.gov.uk/details.php?irn=79565 and http://museums.bristol.gov.uk/narratives.php?irn=4447 .©Geni (talk) 18:18, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The child may technically be on loan from Bristol Royal Infirmary. They definitely have Djed-Khonsu-iu-ankh. see Ancient Egypt in the City and County of Bristol, England.©Geni (talk) 18:54, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Further non museums[edit]

College of the Holy Cross have in in their library
Uplands Academy may be home to one. Certainly was in 2005

©Geni (talk) 16:19, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Dresden State Art Collections have at least two[1]

©Geni (talk) 05:31, 8 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

seems to be one in nottingham museums [2] not sure what museum it is generally attached to.©Geni (talk) 15:07, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ta-Kheru is in the collection of the the University of Aberdeen but they loan to third parties.©Geni (talk) 21:47, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Naperville_Central_High_School#Mummy

Derby[edit]

https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/ancient-egyptian-mummies-travel-to-manchester-for-health-check-up/

Add when time.©Geni (talk) 15:14, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

added.©Geni (talk) 03:30, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Museo de la Historia del Arte-Uruguay[edit]

Apparently home to an egyptian mummy. Can't find an RS mind. Closest would be:

https://www.pagepressjournals.org/index.php/jbr/article/view/10199

©Geni (talk) 09:29, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ROI[edit]

tentdinebu ©Geni (talk) 18:37, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

USA[edit]

An Egyptian Mummy of the Late Old Kingdom in the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University mentions the museum in question.©Geni (talk) 20:15, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum [3].©Geni (talk) 18:39, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Another one in a library[edit]

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary apparently keeps Sheryet-Mehyet in its James P. Boyce Centennial Library:

london[edit]

vienna?[edit]

If I 'm reading this paper correctly a number of museums in vienna have mummies:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0235414

Russia[edit]

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063774518030343

Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society[edit]

Seems to have a pair of human mummies:

https://georgerollieadamsbooks.com/what-are-you-going-to-do-about-the-mummies/

Nominaly this would put them in the collection of the Buffalo History Museum but finding an RS to nail this down is proving challenging.©Geni (talk) 18:45, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Czechoslovakia[edit]

Obviously will have to deal with new boarders and it doesn't know about a mummy head that was donated in 1997 to the national museum of Slovakia (but that wouldn't be included here anyway)

https://publikace.nm.cz/en/periodicals/fiamnpsbhn/35-1-4/egyptian-mummies-in-czechoslovak-collections

Pages 30-31 suggests there was a mummy in the Topoľčianky district museum. However I can find no evidence that the museum exists or that there is still a mummy in Topoľčianky.©Geni (talk) 11:12, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Paisley Museum=[edit]

this source reports mummified human remains this image suggests they have at least one reasonably intact mummy. Most likely source is "R Hunter and S Hunter, The Egyptian Collection of Paisley Museum, Renfrewshire Local History Forum (2005)". However there don't appear to be any copies for sale and all the library copies appear to be in deposit libraries.©Geni (talk) 12:10, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]