UNITED KINGDOM: THE LITTLE KNOWN PETRIE MUSEUM HAS ONE OF THE LARGEST COLLECTIONS OF EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY OUTSIDE CAIRO

Record ID: 980223

  • Title: UNITED KINGDOM: THE LITTLE KNOWN PETRIE MUSEUM HAS ONE OF THE LARGEST COLLECTIONS OF EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY OUTSIDE CAIRO
  • Date: 1st March 2000
  • Summary: (APRIL 11, 2000) (REUTERS -- ACCESS ALL) STEPHEN QUIRKE (CURATOR) AND VARIOUS MUSEUM LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM, (APRIL 11, 2000), (REUTERS -- ACCESS ALL) 1. GV ,EXTERIORS, BUILDINGS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 0.12 2. SCU SIGN READING "UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ,LOODON, MALET PLACE ENTRANCE" 0.14 3. SCU, SIGN READING "PETRIE MUSEUM OF EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY" 0.17 4. GV EXTERIOR OF PETRIE MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 0.21 5. SMV EGYPTIAN FIGURES AND SCULPTURE IN GLASS CASE 0.27 6. GV EGYPTIAN PALEOLITHIC TOOLS ON DISPLAY 0.29 7. PAN OF BEADED DRESS ON DISPLAY 0.33 8. SCU MUMMY SARCOPHAGI 0.36 9. VARIOUSM, (VOXPOP) (English) (COULD YOU TELL ME WHERE THE PETRIE MUSEUM IS?) Taxi driver says: "Where?" (THE PETRIE MUSEUM- IT'S AN EGYPTIAN MUSEUM) Taxi driver says: "Sorry. Never heard of it" 0.46 10. VARIOUS, (VOXPOP) (English) (THE PETRIE MUSEUM?) Man says: "The Petrie, I'm sorry I've got no idea, no." (DO YOU KNOW WHERE IT IS?) Man says: "I've never heard of it". 0.52 11. VARIOUS, (VOXPOP) (English) (DO YOU KNOW WHERE THE PETRIE MUSEUM IS?) Woman says: "Which one". (THE PETRIE) Woman says: "No, I'm sorry, I don't know what it is...How is it spelt?" 0.57 12. PAN OF EGYTIAN ARTIFACTS ON DISPLAY IN PETRIE MUSEUM TO CURATOR STEPHEN QUIRKE AND REPORTER 1.08 13. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) STEPHEN QUIRKE, MUSEUM CURATOR, SAYING: "The collection was housed in not much space, but in least a gallery, something suited to be a gallery. We are now standing in a stable's building. UCL, University College of London, was the most heavily blitzed of the English universities and although the collection was saved just by the love and devotion of the people working at the time, particularly Miss LeFleur, who was the technician " 1.34 14. VARIOUS, EGYPTIAN ARTIFACTS AND MASKS ON DISPLAY (WITH SOUNDBITE OVER OF STEPHEN QUIRKE SPEAKING "(LeFleur r who had to pack up 80,000 objects, an entire collection. It's remarkable that it did survive. But after the war it had to be put first into an inadequate basement, and then into this building, so our main problem is not just space but access. How many people in London know that" (10 SHOTS) 1.57 15. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) STEPHEN QUIRKE, MUSEUM CURATOR, SAYING " the British museum there is one of the great collections for Egyptian antiquities? I showed members of my own family and until I worked here my own family have never heard of it". 2.06 16. SCU PHOTOGRAPH OF ARCHAEOLOGIST SIR WILLIAM FLINDERS PETRIE 2.12 CAIRO, EGYPT, (GAUMONT GRAPHIC ARCHIVE) (REUTERS TELEVISION -- ACCESS ALL) 17. VARIOUS, PLANE FLYING OVER PYRAMIDS 2.28 18. VARIOUS, TOMBS BEING EXCAVATED IN THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS IN THE 1920'S (2 SHOTS) 2.56 LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM, (APRIL 11, 2000), (REUTERS -- ACCESS ALL) 19. SCU PHOTOGRAPH OF FLINDERS PETRIE 2.37 20. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) STEPHEN QUIRKE, MUSEUM CURATOR, SAYING: "I think he was one of the great archeologists of his day and although today many of his excavating techniques are not used anymore, that's no surprise it was 100 years ago, he is still remembered for recovering the early periods of Egyptian history and without Petrie there would have no way of knowing how far back Egyptian history went. When he began excavating, Egyptian history began with the great pyramids and all the centuries before were a mystery and when he left Egypt in the 1930s, he moved to excavate in what was known as Palestine, he had found not only the tombs of the first kings of Egypt from 3000BC, but he had also begun to unravel thousands of years before that." 3.11 21. VARIOUS, VISITORS LOOKING AT MUSEUM DISPLAYS (2 SHOTS) 3.20 22. VARIOUS, EGYPTIAN ARTIFACTS ON DISPLAY INCLUDING EGYPTIAN TABLETS / FLINT IMPLIMENTS (8 SHOTS) 3.36 23. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) STEPHEN QUIRKE, MUSEUM CURATOR, SAYING: "The Petrie museum has always been treated as the teaching collection for the department of Egyptology and that means everything is laid out in a chronological series for students of archeology to see. " 3.52 24. VARIOUS, VISITORS AND STUDENTS LOOKING AT DISPLAYS IN MUSEUM (2 SHOTS) 3.53 25. VARIOUS, EGYPTIAN POTTERY (3 SHOTS) 4.04 26. VARIOUS, PEOPLE LOOKING AT DISPLAYS AND ARTIFACTS (5 SHOTS) (WITH CONTINUED SOUNDBITE OF QUIRKE OVER " This is wonderful for the students, it's a wonderful resource. The problem is that you need a lot of knowledge before you can start to understand what is in these cases and whether any is more important than any of the rest of it. So when you come into the Petrie museum it's like a journey of discovery, it's like an Aladdin's cave. But if would be wonderful if we could do more than that. We could show that, capture that, we could also have the space where we could reconstruct." 4.19 27. VARIOUS, EGYPTIAN FIGURINES ON DISPLAY (2 SHOTS) 4.22 28. GV FILING CABINETS 4.25 29. GV FIRE ESCAPE AND DISPLAYS (2 SHOTS) 4.30 30. SCU REPORTER PIECE TO CAMERA (Most museums elegantly display their exhibits. But at the Petrie museum looking for antiquities is like hunting for buried treasure. Take these two thousand year old mummy portraits -- 50 per cent of this collection is stored away because there is no space). 4.44 31. CLOSE UP OF STORED ENCAUSTIC PANEL PAINTINGS (3 SHOTS) 4.56 32. VARIOUS ENCAUSTIC PAINTINGS IN DISPLAY CASES (5 SHOTS) 5.11 33. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) STEPHEN QUIRKE, MUSEUM CURATOR, SAYING: "An encaustic, as a technique from ancient Rome, was foreign to Egypt. It was used for the mummy portraits at Hawara in the Fayyum and in 1888 Petrie was the first to excavate a large cemetery with these portraits. It caused a sensation because encaustic is painting by mixing your pigments with wax and this gives them fluidity and control and depth which is almost three dimensional. It's quite extraordinary and when they found those mummy portraits it must have seen a new renaissance." 5.24 LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (APRIL 7, 2000) (REUTERS -- ACCESS ALL) 34. SMV, MARK KARASICK CANADIAN ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO ( 3 SHOTS) 5.36 35. VARIOUS, KARASICK EXHIBITS/ ARTWORK (3 SHOTS) 5.44 36. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) MARK KARASICK CANADIAN ARTIST SAYING: "I've taken 31 artefacts from their collection of my choice, they left me free, which I thought were more accessible to the public, instead of really obscure things of which there are numerous and bury them in encaustic and use the inventory numbers which Petrie was famous for and engrave them on the surface and have lit them from the back so you have technology shining through the history." 6.13 37. VARIOUS, CHILDREN ON SCHOOL TRIP LOOKING AT DISPLAYS IN THE PETRIE MUSEUM (5 SHOTS) 6.32 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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