Category: Traditional and Social Media

Archaeology and Egyptology in the media, from social media to national and international media. How it’s presented and how we ‘consume’ it.

Photograph of the Pitt Rivers Museum from Wikimedia Commons, taken in 2015.

Weaponising women: How an article about women’s rights and access is really a criticism of decolonisation.

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What do women's right have to do with decolonisation? A lot as it turns out.

Misunderstanding Museums: How criticism of the Pitt Rivers Museum reveals public misunderstandings about how museums work.

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How do museums work? What proportion of their collection can you see as a visitor? How much is online? And what do changes to the museum mean for physical and digital visits?

Photograph of the Pitt Rivers Museum from Wikimedia Commons, taken in 2015.

Masking masks: Does the Pitt Rivers Museum really ‘hide’ objects from women?

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Has the Pitt-Rivers Museum really started hiding objects from women?

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What’s the point of an exhibition? or ‘How to Wellcome change in the museum space’

On By hannahpethenIn Museum collections, Traditional and Social Media3 Comments

As I write this in late November 2022, academic and museum Twitter has just seen an almighty row about the Wellcome Collection's decision to close and replace its 'Medicine Man' gallery. (In fact, 'row' probably isn't even the right word for it - we need a new word for these Twitter events, something that encompasses …

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Tutankhamun, Nefertiti and all that jazz: What have we learned?

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Almost a year since the media discovered Reeves' theory that Tutankhamun's tomb contained Nefertiti, what have we learned?

Fakes and conspiracy theories: A cautionary tale for users of facebook archaeology pages.

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This post is dedicated to all the hard-working volunteer admins who monitor facebook pages and online forums. The experiences I detail below emphasise how important your hard work is, so thank you. The internet is a marvelous thing for archaeology. Most people would agree, certainly anyone who's had to track down an awkward journal article …

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