Egyptian Gallery

Parts of the Egyptian collection were collected by the Egyptologist John Garstang, who was from Blackburn. Many of these objects are on display in our Egyptian Gallery. The displays feature small objects such as colourful faience jewellery, personal grooming items like makeup pots and funerary objects including shabtis. The gallery also features the museum’s late 1st – early 2nd century AD mummy.

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Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery opened on 11th June 1874 as the Blackburn Free Library and Museum. The museum now occupies the entire building and collections include British 19th and 20th century fine art; the R E Hart Collection of early books and coins; the Thomas Boys Lewis collection of Japanese prints; Greek and Russian Icons; Egyptology as well as the borough’s local history and industrial history collections, including the Lewis Textile Collection which was formerly housed at the Lewis Textile Museum.

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