 |
| Empress Eugenie's incense burners |
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Art Attack in Egypt? Officials Give Tour of Museum
Posted on 23:37 by cena mical
AL-AHRAM
EGYPT - Were last weekend's allegations over objects missing from the Museum of Islamic Art's new display aimed at stirring up more controversy over the Ministry of State for Antiquities? Last Saturday a press conference was held at the MIA after Mohamed Abdel-Maqsoud, supervisor-general of the minister of state for antiquities' office, and Attia Radwan, head of the ministry's museum sector, led a tour of the MIA to show the objects under debate. Mohamed El-Kahlawi, the chairman of the MIA told reporters that the 100,000 objects in the MIA collection were all safe. Some 50,000 of these are vase fragments, coins and clay vessels which are not suitable for display. [link]
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
0 comments:
Post a Comment