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Temporary closure of the Museum

The Museum is temporarily closed to the public until 21 November 2025 inclusive as the frames are replaced. 

The study library is accessible by appointment.

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Project « Egypt’s entry into modern-day popular culture »

This project aims to explore the references to Egyptian antiquity in contemporary production, specifically that related to pop culture and folk arts. Ancient Egypt provides fertile ground for artists and makers. 

Whether by its representation techniques or iconography, they have been attracted to, fascinated and inspired by Egyptian art for more than 2,000 years. Output from architects, ceramists, painters, sculpturers, jewellers, couturiers, fiction writers, poets, musicians and film references a fantastical, often reinvented, Egypt. 

Today, haute couture, video games, cartoons, street art and tattoos offer new forms of expression and potential new approaches to the study of how Egypt has been embraced by popular culture. 
 

Research projects:

Egyptian and Near East Antiquities

Researcher

Page de Arnaud Quertinmont Arnaud Quertinmont

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Face to Face: The People Behind the Mummy Portraits

Study of 12 mummy portraits (also known as ‘Fayum portraits’) using the latest broadband spectral imaging techniques.

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Hybrids in Egypt and beyond. A multicultural phenomenon

Halfway between animal, human, plant or animated object, hybrids are to be found in many civilisations. What is the intellectual and/or artistic thinking behind the creation of these figures?

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From Egypt to Mariemont: a history of the Egyptian antiquities

Mariemont’s Egyptian antiquities collection has come together in different ways over time. Raoul Warocqué’s aim was to collect specific types of Egyptian objects but successive curators have attempted to fill what they deemed to be the gaps he left behind

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Scientific team

The research carried out at Mariemont is organised around 8 thematic areas which reflect the specific features of the scientific work carried out in the museum sector.

There are around thirty collaborative research projects in which members of the Mariemont scientific team are involved.

The results of this research are made available to the scientific community and are the subject of ongoing accessibility work to ensure that they are passed on to the public. 

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