The Petrie Museum houses an estimated 80,000 objects, making it one of the greatest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology in the world. It illustrates life in the Nile Valley from prehistory through the time of the pharaohs, the Ptolemaic, Roman and Coptic periods to the Islamic period.
The Petrie Museum is a university museum. It was set up as a teaching resource for the Department of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology at University College London (UCL). Both the department and the museum were created in 1892 through the bequest of the writer Amelia Edwards (1831-1892).
Amelia Edwards donated her collection of several hundred Egyptian antiquities, many of historical importance. However, the collection grew to international stature in scope and scale thanks mainly to the extraordinary excavating career of the first Edwards Professor, William Flinders Petrie (1853-1942).
Listing Details
- Address: Malet Place, Camden, London WC1E 6BT
- Phone: 020 7679 2884
- Email: petrie.museum@ucl.ac.uk
- Get there by bus: 10, 14, 24, 29, 73, 134, 390,
- Get there by tube/train: Northern Line, Victoria Line, Picadilly line, Circle, Hammersmith&City, Metropolitan
- Wheelchair access: Yes
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Additional information:
If you have mobility difficulties please contact us in advance of your visit and we will do our best to help. We may be able to arrange parking for you in the main university quadrangle (off Gower Street, see map). There is a banner over the entrance to the museum, which is located on the first floor of the DMS Watson library. Staff at the security desk just inside the library entrance will be able to direct you to the museum (there are signs).
There is lift access to the museum on the first floor, and to the toilet for visitors with disabilities on the third floor. Inside the museum visitors must negotiate two steps to reach the second gallery: a wheelchair lift is available. Occasionally on Saturdays in vacation time, or for evening events, lift access may not be possible; please contact us in advance of your visit to check.
Lighting within the museum is less than ideal, and we offer visitors the loan of torches. Seating is available.
Opening Times
- Monday Closed
- Tuesday 13.00 – 17.00
- Wednesday 13.00 – 17.00
- Thursday 13.00 – 17.00
- Friday 13.00 – 17.00
- Saturday 13.00 – 17.00
- Sunday Closed
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