Egyptology collections at Royal Pavilion & Museums 

Like most ancient Egyptian museum collections, Royal Pavilion & Museums has a mixture of donated and excavated material. The unusual aspect is the strong connection to one of the leading figures in Egyptology, Professor Francis Llewellyn Griffith who lived in Brighton.

Griffith was able to join William Matthew Flinders Petrie's excavations in Egypt as Petrie had secured funding partly through the support of Henry Willett, a founder of Brighton Museum & Art Gallery whose own collections (including some Egyptian objects) are held by Royal Pavilion & Museums. Through subscription to the excavations, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery continued to receive objects from British-led expeditions until the 1920s.

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