Ushebti figures

FROM THE EGYPTIAN MUSEUM

Ushebti figures bought by Wilhelmina von Hallwyl in Cairo.

Ida Uhse writes in her travel diary that on 24 March 1901 they “Visited the museum where the Countess purchased two idols for herself and two for Miss Kempe”. When she mentions “the museum” she means that which she also refers to as the “Giza Museum”, what we know as the Egyptian Museum. The museum was founded in 1835 and moved between different premises before it was given its final location in a newly built museum by Tahrir Square. At the time of Ida Uhse's visit, the museum was housed in a wing of the Giza Palace.