Ian Mathieson Memorial Lecture
Due to industrial action affecting National Rail services, this event is now ZOOM only.
To mark the return of Manchester Museum's critically acclaimed international touring exhibition 'Golden Mummies of Egypt', curator Campbell Price explores some of the concepts central to the show. Mummification is less about preserving the deceased as they were when they were alive and rather about transforming them into a divine image. Through gilded masks but also the so-called 'Faiyum Portraits', an ideal face is given to the divinised deceased. Often our modern assumptions about images and our quest for the 'real' prevent us from understanding this process of transformation.
Dr Campbell Price is Curator of Egypt and Sudan at Manchester Museum, part of the University of Manchester. He is curator of the exhibition 'Golden Mummies of Egypt', and author of an accompanying book. Campbell is Honorary Research Fellow in Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, and currently Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Egypt Exploration Society.
Entry: £5 members, £7 non-members