Museum Critical Review
Your task in this assessment is to write a 500 word review of one room or gallery in the British Museum, London, for the Centre for Cultural Heritage and Environment website.
THE BRITISH MUSEUM, LONDON | https://www.britishmuseum.org/
Cropped colour photograph of the Great Court in the British Museum, London. Image from Max Pixel.
To complete this task please visit (physically or virtually) the galleries of the British Museum, London, which display cultural objects and remains of Egyptian and Near Eastern origin.
In developing your review, you will need to analyse and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of your chosen room/s from the British Museum, because you need to explain why equitable and accessible representation in museums is important for contemporary archaeology AND for Indigenous communities.
Explore and write your critical review based on your analysis of ONE (1) of the galleries listed below:
Egyptian Sculpture | Room 4
Egyptian Life and Death | Room 61
Egyptian death and afterlife: mummies | Rooms 62-63
Early Egypt | Room 64
Sudan, Egypt and Nubia | Room 65
Ethiopia and Coptic Egypt | Room 66
