How can modern #Egypt be presented in #museum? 

From food to TV series to Ramesses square; El Mazzikaty, Pianola, Ramses, Politics, and #Modernity, Portsaid heritage museum and  EL-TAHBESHA: five design proposals for a #museum on Egypt’s #modernist #heritage, beyond traditional #colonial and #postcolonial frameworks El Mazzikaty, Pianola, Ramses, Politics, and Modernity, Portsaid heritage museum and  EL-TAHBESHA: five design proposals for a #museum on Egypt’s modernist heritage, beyond traditional colonial and postcolonial frameworks. 

A postgraduate elective Egyptian Regions and Architecture  @AASTMTeg , This term module is in partnership with @uclarchaeology @AHRCpress funded @excavatedegypt led by @GawadHeba and @aliceestevenson . The project partnered with @TheEES @PetrieMusEgypt @Mcrmuseum @world_museum @Ntlmuseumsscot @Hornimanmuseum The final product will be presented @uclarchaeology

 

Finally, a due thanks @GawadHeba for her effort all through the term; questioning the students’ beliefs with her phrases: “Mind your audience”, “Cultural appropriation”, “Decolonizing a museum”, “The strength of the local is that it is off-center” and “Same thing but you prefer el-Khawaga”! 

 

Thanks to @aliceestevenson @eloquentpeasant @JohannaZS our insightful jurors