To my shame, I have never previously been to the Petrie Museum in spite of having spent a great amount of my life in its neighbourhood. The truth is that I never knew where it was, not easily accessible from University College’s great courtyard on Gower Street, but up what feels like a back alley off Torrington Place. But it’s amazing when you get there – such an incredibly rich, apparent jumble, but actually ordered collection of tightly packed objects, many still with hand-written labels, deeply old-fashioned, but so old-fashioned as to be itself a form of archaeology, conveying the wealth and depth of Egyptian antiquities in a closely confined space.

I remember that Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones were hired to re-present the collection more than twenty years ago. I wonder what happened to that project.