One of the best Ancient Egyptian collections I've come across would be the permanent Egypt collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Although the focus of the gallery is on Egypt as a whole and not Mau specifically, it is still a great gallery to visit. I highly recommend seeing it.
From the website of the MET:
The Museum's collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of
approximately twenty-six thousand objects of artistic, historical, and
cultural importance, dating from the Paleolithic to the Roman period
(ca. 300,000 B.C.–A.D. 4th century). More
than half of the collection is derived from the Museum's thirty-five
years of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to
increasing Western interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.
What's On View
Virtually the entire collection is on display in the Lila Acheson
Wallace Galleries of Egyptian Art, with objects arranged chronologically
over thirty-nine rooms. Overall, the holdings reflect the aesthetic
values, history, religious beliefs, and daily life of the ancient
Egyptians over the entire course of their great civilization. The
collection is particularly well known for the Old Kingdom mastaba
(offering chapel) of Perneb (ca. 2450 B.C.); a set of Middle Kingdom wooden models from the tomb of Meketre at Thebes (ca. 1990 B.C.); jewelry of Princess Sit-hathor-yunet of Dynasty 12 (ca. 1897–1797 B.C.); royal portrait sculpture of Dynasty 12 (ca. 1991–1783 B.C.); and statuary of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut of Dynasty 18 (ca. 1473–1458 B.C.).
The department also exhibits its invaluable collection of watercolor
facsimiles of Theban tomb paintings, most of which are copies produced
between 1907 and 1937 by members of the Graphic Section of the Museum's
Egyptian Expedition.
One of the most popular destinations in the Egyptian galleries is the Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing. Built about 15 B.C.
by the Roman emperor Augustus, who had succeeded Cleopatra VII, the
last of the Ptolemaic rulers of Egypt, the temple was dedicated to the
great goddess Isis and to two sons of a local Nubian ruler who had aided
the Romans in their wars with the queen of Meroe to the south. Located
in Lower Nubia, about fifty miles south of modern Aswan, the temple was
dismantled to save it from the rising waters of Lake Nasser after the
construction of the Aswan High Dam. It was presented to the United
States as a gift from the Egyptian government in recognition of the
American contribution to the international campaign to save the ancient
Nubian monuments.
History of the Department
The Department of Egyptian Art was established in 1906 to oversee the
Museum's already sizable collection of art from ancient Egypt. The
collection had been growing since 1874 thanks to individual gifts from
benefactors and acquisition of private collections (such as the Drexel
Collection in 1889, the Farman Collection in 1904, and the Ward
Collection in 1905), as well as through yearly subscriptions, from 1895
onward, to the Egypt Exploration Fund, a British organization that
conducted archaeological excavations in Egypt and donated a share of its
finds to subscribing institutions.
Also in 1906, the Museum's Board of Trustees voted to establish an
Egyptian Expedition to conduct archaeological excavations at several
sites along the Nile. Instrumental in this decision was J. Pierpont
Morgan, the Museum's president, who visited the expedition periodically
until his death in 1913. At the time, the Egyptian government (through
the Egyptian Antiquities Service) was granting foreign institutions the
right to excavate with the understanding that the resulting finds would
be divided evenly between the excavators and the Egyptian Museum in
Cairo. The Metropolitan Museum was granted concessions for the Middle
Kingdom royal cemeteries of Lisht; the Late Dynastic Period temple of
Hibis at Kharga Oasis in the western desert; the New Kingdom royal
palace at Malqata; and the Middle and New Kingdom cemeteries and temples
of Deir el-Bahri in the Theban necropolis opposite modern Luxor. The
Egyptian Antiquities Service subsequently granted access to other sites
as well, among them the important Predynastic cemetery of Hierakonpolis
in southern Egypt.
Between 1906 and 1935, the Metropolitan Museum's Egyptian Expedition
conducted fourteen seasons of excavations at Lisht. The site includes
the Middle Kingdom pyramid complexes of Amenemhat I, the first king of
Dynasty 12, and of his son, Senwosret I; a cemetery of officials from
Dynasties 12 and 13; and an important Middle Kingdom settlement site.
The early excavation teams were led by noted American Egyptologist
Albert M. Lythgoe, the first curator of the Department of Egyptian Art.
Lythgoe was assisted by his American colleague, Ambrose Lansing, and by
Arthur C. Mace, a British Egyptologist. Also at Lisht was Herbert E.
Winlock, a young American who was just beginning his career in
Egyptology. Among the most important finds from the site are a ritual
figure of wood (ca. 1929–1878 B.C.), one of a pair, the
second of which is in Cairo; and burial equipment from the tomb of the
Lady Senebtisi. It was while working with Mace in this tomb that Winlock
developed the careful archaeological methods that made him one of the
greatest excavators in the field of Egyptology.
In 1911, after several seasons at Lisht, Herbert Winlock became the
primary director of fieldwork at Thebes. He later succeeded Lythgoe as
the head of the Department of Egyptian Art, and eventually served as
director of the Museum. Winlock conducted excavations in the Dynasty 18
mud-brick palace of Amenhotep III at Malqata, near the southern end of
the vast Theban necropolis, but his principal work was done at the
temples and cemeteries in the area of Deir el-Bahri. There, in 1920, he
discovered a small, untouched chamber in the tomb of the early Middle
Kingdom chancellor Meketre (ca. 1990 B.C.). The chamber
contained a set of twenty-four painted wooden models of boats, gardens,
offering figures, and scenes of food production that are more detailed
than any found before or since. These models are among the most prized
possessions of the collections at the Met and at the Egyptian Museum in
Cairo. Winlock also discovered hundreds of fragments of the smashed
statues that had once embellished the funerary temple of Hatshepsut, the
great female pharaoh who ruled during Dynasty 18 (ca. 1473–1458 B.C.).
Painstakingly reassembled, these statues are some of the great
masterpieces now to be found in New York and Cairo.
Over the years the Department of Egyptian Art has been able to
acquire, through purchase and bequest, a number of important private
collections, including those of Rev. Chauncey Murch (1910), Theodore M.
Davis (1915), J. Pierpont Morgan (1917), the Earl of Carnarvon (1926),
and Albert Gallatin (1966). Significant gifts have also come from
collectors such as Norbert Schimmel (1985), and major purchases have
been made possible by benefactors, including Darius Ogden Mills, Helen
Miller Gould, Edward S. Harkness, Jacob S. Rogers, and Lila Acheson
Wallace, who also funded the reinstallation of the Egyptian galleries
that was completed in 1982.
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