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For further information about the pop-up museum concept, please see the article by Melanie Pitkin et al. “Engaging audiences in areas of low cultural provision: the concept of the ‘pop-up’ museum experience”, CIPEG Journal no. 4 (2020), 37-53, https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/cipeg/article/view/83936 The more classic Halloween items like the Scream mask, however, are becoming less sought-after. Read More Related Articles In the end, we were having difficulty finishing the pop-ups because more people kept arriving. Someone stayed for almost 8 hours and one of the children who came along told us that: With the end of October fast approaching people are starting to think about Halloween and deciding what to wear can often be quite a task. Halloween HQ, which has just opened in Eldon Square has a wide selection of costumes, make-up, accessories, home decorations and Halloween party items.

Sara: Well, we have been working with furniture and woodwork designers in the city of Damietta in northern Egypt. Damietta is the hub of woodwork in Egypt; Egyptologists and conservators from the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir were able to go to a furniture factory here and run a pop-up museum.What’s really great about all of this is that it’s quite endless; one door leads to another, then another, then another… It means it’s been a success because it’s opening doors to other possibilities and ideas, which is really interesting. David: And what are the next steps for this? Sara: Highlighting the connections between our museum collections and the practices and way of life which still exist in today’s modern Egypt, humanises the whole experience. It makes it closer on a human level. Sara: Working with the Fitzwilliam Museum on the Ancient Coffins project has led to new opportunities for collaboration here in Egypt, including with the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the National Museum in Alexandria and the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir. The main development was to explore using pop-up museums. The pop-up museums let people see the relevance that things have to their own history. And it’s fun, as well. If someone is curious, it’s fun. If people don’t really have fun and enjoy it, then why would we do it? Pop Up Museum in Damietta, at Pinocchio Furniture Factory. Egyptian Museum in Cairo (EMC) curators and Dr Julie Dawson, Dr Geoffrey Killen of the Egyptian Coffins project showing the ancient Egyptian carpentry tools to workers at the factory who enthusiastically tried the tools and discussed similarities and differences to current tools. David: What have you learned from the sessions?

This work was funded through generous grants from the University of Cambridge’s Arts and Humanities Impact Fund and the Global Challenges Research Fund. Halloween HQ opens in Newcastle and there's very creepy characters ready to welcome you at the door The pop-up museums provide us with new forms of knowledge. For example, we can learn more about woodworking practices and incorporate those findings into the galleries in our museums.

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Using the same model, we’ve been taking research, including the work on the Nespawershefyt coffin set that’s displayed at the Fitzwilliam Museum, to the general public in Egypt in new ways. It’s been about exploring different ways of engaging with communities and creating a connection between people and museums. The goal is that museums are not just dry, academic institutions, but something that can go out to people beyond the museum walls. David: Sounds interesting! What kind of things have you been getting up to in your sessions? Any unusual venues?

Then, we will be continuing our work in Cambridge over the coming months. We have already shared data with the education team at the Fitzwilliam and started creating a short film for school visits. All the possibilities that are available when you think about collections differently is really interesting. You can connect the collections to what you have today. It’s not just a dead history, it’s very much alive.

David Farrell-Banks, the Participatory Research and Impact Coordinator at the Fitzwilliam, chats with Sara Hany Abed, a museum and heritage content researcher based in Alexandria Egypt.

Sara: At the moment, we are running a new series of pop-up museums in Egypt. We would like to extend this and recreate an ancient Egyptian carpentry workshop in Damietta, because although it’s the hub of Egyptian furniture and woodwork, there is no museum related to ancient Egypt in the city.

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