Bolton Museum’s popular Egypt Study Day is back this autumn

Bolton Museum is bringing back its Egypt Study Day this autumn following a record sellout of its debut event in July.

Happening on Sat 7 Sep, All About Mummification will invite attendees to engage in fascinating lectures and practical workshops hosted by expert Egyptologists

Bolton Museum also promises to provide hands-on experience with ancient Egyptian artefacts, with highly knowledgeable insight from the curators and partners of Bolton’s Egyptology.

Attendees can discover all about Egyptian mummification in the heart of Bolton’s Egypt collection – the largest of its kind in a local authority museum in the UK – where the famous “Unknown Man” mummy is displayed.

With burial textiles, featuring the work of the University of York’s Mummy Research Group, cofounders of the group, Professor Joann Fletcher and Dr Stephen Buckley will be providing talks and workshops throughout the day.

This research group has studied aspects of the Bolton Egypt collection for over 35 years, making numerous discoveries, including the world’s oldest evidence for Egyptian mummification – based on the analysis of textiles in Bolton’s collection and the likely royal lineage of the “Unknown Man”, a mummified body housed within the Thutmose III burial chamber gallery.

Executive Cabinet Member for Culture, Cllr Nadeem Ayub said of Bolton’s Egypt: “Bolton Museum has a 140-year history of working with international experts in Egyptology and making this world-leading research accessible to the public.

“In this year, both the 140^th Anniversary of Bolton Museums and Bolton’s year as Greater Manchester Town of Culture, we wanted to do something special.

“The study day is open to absolutely anyone with an interest in ancient Egypt, and you can get hands-on with real ancient material, learning direct from the experts.

“Bolton has an amazing collection that deserves to be accessed, and events like this are going to give access to ancient Egypt like nowhere else in the country.”

The Study Day will conclude with after-hours wine, nibbles, and chats with the experts in the Bolton’s Egypt galleries.

Tickets can be booked in the Bolton Museum Shop, or by calling 01204 332211. Tickets can also be booked for just a single lecture to see Professor Joann Fletcher’s talk on The History of Mummification here.