Conservation Lab

Mummy Conservation Project

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The renovated Daily Life in Ancient Egypt exhibition opened in May 1999 on the third floor of Yale Peabody Museum. The cleaning and restoration of the exhibition’s Egyptian mummy and its wooden coffin, or sarcophagus — originally from Thebes and dated to the Ptolemaic Period — and the redesign of the area where it is displayed took three years.

The mummy and its sarcophagus were conserved and prepared for re-exhibition by the Museum’s Conservation Laboratory staff, with the help of Mimi Leveque, an objects conservator in private practice, and her staff.

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