Museum

World Museum Liverpool

Liverpool, United Kingdom · founded 1851

Museum in Liverpool, founded 1851. 11 people in the register connected with it.

History

1851
Museum opened as the Derby Museum on the basis of the 13th Earl of Derby's natural-history collection; later the Free Public Museum and, after the 2005 refurbishment, World Museum.
World Museum, Liverpool
1867
Joseph Mayer's collection of antiquities, ceramics and manuscripts donated, turning the museum into a fine-art and antiquities museum (Ulbrich and Kiely); Wikipedia gives over 5,000 Egyptian antiquities.
Ulbrich & Kiely 2012, p. 18 World Museum, Liverpool
1870
Annual Report records the purchase of 'Ten specimens of Graeco-Phoenician Pottery and Glass found at Cyprus', from the Sandwith sales held in Liverpool for famine relief.
Henry Sandwith Reeve 2021, p. 90-91
1872
Captain Fothergill of the S.S. Thessalia presented Cypriot limestone sculpture. Droop (1931) assumed a Cesnola origin; Ulbrich and Kiely suggest R. H. Lang as the likelier source, since Lang shipped part of his collection to the British Museum on the same ship in 1872.
Captain Fothergill Robert Hamilton Lang Ulbrich & Kiely 2012, p. 18 Reeve 2021, p. 91
1931
Droop published a Handbook and Guide to the Collection of Cypriote Sculpture (The Museums) and an article on limestone heads in the Liverpool Public Museums (Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology 18).
J. P. Droop Toumazou et al. 2011, p. 179
1941
Museum building burnt out in the May Blitz; Kiely records severe wartime losses to the collection.
World Museum, Liverpool Kiely 2017
1950–1955
Co-sponsored, with St Andrews University, the Palaepaphos (Kouklia) expedition directed by J. H. Iliffe (Liverpool) and T. B. Mitford (St Andrews). Kiely suggests replacing the wartime losses was one motive; finds were divided under the pre-1960 Antiquities Law between Kouklia, Nicosia, St Andrews, Liverpool, Birmingham and Sydney.
KoukliaJohn Henry (Harry) Iliffe Terence Bruce Mitford Kiely 2017 Catling 2020
1956
Bought most of the foreign holdings of Norwich Castle Museum, including Cypriot items and Rider Haggard Egyptian material, while rebuilding its displays after the war.
Kiely 2017
1988
Tsielepi and Bienkowski, Cypriot Pottery in the Liverpool Museum: An interim list (Liverpool).
Kiely 2017

People

11 people

Staff and members · 7

Captain Fothergilldonor (1872–1872) · donorUlbrich & Kiely 2012, p. 181872
Elaine Tankardstaff (from 1951) · draughtswoman (as 'of the Liverpool Museums')Catling 20201951
Dorothy Slowstaff (from 1967) · staffCatling 20201967
Chrissy Parthenicurator (from 2017) · curator (called 'its current curator Dr Chrissy Partheni' in Kiely 2017)Kiely 20172017
Hector Catlingother (from 1958)Catling 2020
Ian Wolfendenstaff · staff memberCatling 2020
J. P. Droopother (1931–1931)Toumazou et al. 2011, p. 179

Fieldwork · 2

John Henry (Harry) Iliffedirector (1948–1960) · director of the Liverpool Museums · dug for it · worked for it · worked withMaier 19971948–1955
George Roy Haslam Wrightexcavator (1952–1952)Catling 2020

Donors and lenders · 2

Richard W. V. Catlinggave objects2013–2020
G. Sinclair Robertsondonor · donor · gave objectsReeve 2021, p. 92

Objects

Cypriot limestone heads and small statues (a considerable collection)
via Captain Fothergill1872Ulbrich & Kiely 2012, p. 18
Cast bronze Osiris figure, 'Ex Lawrence-Cesnola collection'
1961.202.180World Museum Liverpool record…
'Large early Greek pottery vase' bought for 5 pounds from the Sandwith sales
via G. Sinclair RobertsonReeve 2021, p. 92

Sources

1.“World Museum, Liverpool”. Wikipedia (English). Wikimedia Foundation. Online
2.Anja Ulbrich, Thomas Kiely (2012). “Britain and the Archaeology of Cyprus. I. The long 19th century”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42. Online
3.Anna Holly Reeve (2021). “Ancient Cyprus in Leeds: Objects, Networks and Museums from 1870 to 1947”. PhD thesis, University of Leeds.
4.T. Kiely (2017). “Britain and the archaeology of Cyprus II: 1914 to the present day”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 47, 253-310. Online
5.H. W. Catling (2020). Kouklia: Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Tombs at Palaepaphos 1951-1954. Oxford, BAR Publishing.
6.M. K. Toumazou (ed.), P. N. Kardulias (ed.), D. B. Counts (ed.) (2011). Crossroads and Boundaries: The Archaeology of Past and Present in the Malloura Valley, Cyprus.
7.F. G. Maier (1997). “A hundred years after Hogarth: Digging at Aphrodite's Sanctuary at Palaipaphos”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 27, 127-136. Online
8.World Museum Liverpool record 1961.202.180.