Egypt Centre

The Egypt Centre is a museum of Egyptian antiquities. It is part of business services, University of Wales Swansea. The Egypt Centre consists of part of the collection of the pharmacist Sir Henry Wellcome from the turn of the century. It has been in the keeping of University of Wales, Swansea since the early 1970s. Thanks to the hard work of Dr Kate Bosse-Griffiths the collection opened as a museum. For information on Egyptology in Swansea University prior to the setting of of the Egypt Centre see Griffiths, G. 2000, Museum efforts before Wellcome.

The idea for a new museum for the Wellcome Collection - to make it more accessible to the public as well as scholars - was developed by Sybil Crouch, Manager of Taliesin Arts Centre. Ms Crouch prepared applications for external funding and £700,000 was raised from Heritage Lottery Fund and the European Regional Development Fund. The design and fit out of the museum was developed by a working group chaired by Professor Alan Lloyd of the Department of Classics and Ancient History. The Egypt Centre opened to the public in September 1998.