Con Daniela Picchi
The Egyptian collection of the Archaeological Museum of Bologna is one of the most important in Italy, together with those of Turin and Florence, and it is also relevant at European level for the number, historical value and conservation status of its approximately 4,000 objects. In recent years the Egyptian Department of the Bolognese Museum has launched its Archive Project. In-depth archival researches have been started with the aims of identifying: the actual number and nature of the Egyptian objects belonging to the different collections that have been donated to the Bologna county council from the end of the sixteenth century to the present day; when and whence these antiquities arrived in Bologna – whether from other Italian or European collections, from escavations in Rome and the surrounding area or directly from Egypt. This research is still a work in progress, but the numerous documents – traced from Bologna to Copenhagen, via London – made a fairly detailed reconstruction of the whole Egyptian collection possible. The public of the Italian Institute of Culture at Copenhagen will be introduced to the knowledge of this ancient history of collecting and to the Egyptian masterpieces of the Archaeological Museum of Bologna.
The conference will be held in English.