Pharaonic Egypt has an enduring hold on the popular imagination that few other ancient civilizations can match. Glamour, mystery, fear and a strange sense of familiarity have combined to create both an intoxicating mirage – but also a monolithic ‘museum culture’. This lecture interrogates the child-like wonder of first encounters with ‘Ancient Egypt’, its various influences in Western perceptions and explores the circularity of influences between museums and popular culture.
Speaker: Dr Campbell Price has been Curator of Egypt and Sudan at Manchester Museum since 2011. He studied Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, where he is now an Honorary Research Fellow.
This is the last of the Winter Lecture series.
The lecture is free, but you will be encouraged to make a donation. It is available as an in-person talk at M Shed or as a livestream over Zoom. To register for a place / the livestream link via the Museum’s website click here.
The Museum Winter Lecture series is sponsored by The Friends