Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Archaeological museum at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States.
The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology is an archaeological museum on the University of Michigan campus that houses more than 100,000 artifacts from ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern civilizations. The collection includes roughly 45,000 objects from Karanis plus over 8,500 pieces of Parthian pottery, displayed within a historic registered building.
Newberry Hall, constructed in 1888 by architectural firm Spier and Rohns, became the museum's home in 1928. A new wing was added in 2009 to expand the display space for the growing collection.
The museum displays objects from the Greco-Roman Egyptian town of Karanis, showing how ancient Mediterranean communities lived day to day. The exhibits reveal trade connections and everyday practices of these vanished societies.
The museum opens on weekdays and weekends with varying hours depending on the day of the week. Wheelchair access is fully available throughout the building, and the campus provides various ways to find your way around and arrive by different transportation.
The museum preserves field notes, photographs, and documents from more than a century of archaeological excavations at sites in Egypt, Iraq, Turkey, and Libya. These archive materials show how archaeologists worked at the time and what they discovered during their expeditions.
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