Cataloguing and Rehousing the EES Artefacts for Future Generations

We are currently running a campaign to redevelop our premises (help our Building the Future campaign here), which requires the careful rehousing and relocation of all our physical collections over the next few months (access to our online collections via our catalogue and Flickr will continue). Find out more about accessing the collections before their closure here. To ensure that much of our collection remains available during the redevelopment, both online and via recall from off-site storage, we have already completed our first rehousing project with the help of our first intern.

EES Intern Maia Nolan holding one of several pieces of Islamic pottery from Fustat from the collection of Margaret Drower, (EES.OBJ.05.018).

In September and October 2025, thanks to the 2024: Future plans for future generations appeal, the EES was able to employ an intern – UCL postgraduate student Maia Nolan – as part of the efforts to pack and relocate the collections in advance of the Building the Future campaign. This internship focused on artefacts in the EES collections. We are very pleased to announce that they have now all been catalogued and rehoused in preparation for the move.

You can read more about the project and our collections of artefacts in Maia's Collection Highlight 'Activating Collections for the Future: cataloguing and rehousing the EES artefacts'.

EES.OBJ.02.030 and EES.OBJ.02.031 in their original housing and the bracelet of carnelian beads (EES.OBJ.02.031) in its new storage.