Brooklyn Museum. Department of Egyptian, Classical & Ancient Middle Eastern Art.
Beginning in 1898, a year after the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences opened the central museum building, the Museum began actively collecting Egyptian and classical objects through private donations and sponsored excavations. Prior to 1932, when the Department of Antiquities was created, the Museum acquired Egyptian and classical objects through the efforts and guidance of William H. Goodyear, the first curator of the Department of Fine Arts. By the mid-1930s, the newly established curatorial department was also funneling resources into scholarly publications, exhibitions and installations, preservation, and special projects.
Goodyear acquired the first Egyptian objects from the Museum through the donation of Amelia B. Edwards in 1898 and steadily worked to enhance the collection. Egyptologists Henri and Jacques de Morgan and Armand de Potter were important contributors of artifacts in these early years. The Museum also acquired objects directly through archaeological excavations, developing an important and ongoing relationship with the Egypt Exploration Fund, based in Britain and later known as the Egypt Exploration Society.
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