Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
  1. Home
  2. Search

Refine search

Refine search

Access:
Content type:
Publication date:
Apply   From and To filters
Subject: Show more
Journals Show more
Publishers: Show more
Societies Show more
Series: Show more
Collections: Show more

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

1 results

  • Chapter 5 - The Netherlands

  • Edited by Andrew Bednarski, University of Cambridge, Aidan Dodson, University of Bristol, Salima Ikram, American University in Cairo
  • Book:
    A History of World Egyptology
    Published online:
    01 June 2021
    Print publication:
    27 May 2021, pp 136-152

  • Summary

    The split of the Netherlands and Belgium into two states during 1830–31 ended the Leiden Museum’s golden years of acquisition, leaving it to face a new economic reality. It also meant that the dream of the museum’s director, Conrad Reuvens (see Fig. 5.1), to move the collections to one of the monarchy’s former capitals had ended, Brussels having become the capital of the new state of Belgium, and no funding being available for a transfer of the collections to Amsterdam. Even so, Reuvens continued referring to what officially was no more than the university´s ‘Archaeological Cabinet’ as the ‘National Museum of Antiquities’ (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden).