Team

Studies

Professors in Egyptology: Prof. Hermann A. Schlögl (Fribourg), Prof. Erik Hornung (Basel).

Oktober 1991 – March 1992: Field research (Cultural Anthropology) in Auckland (New Zealand).

March 1994: University graduation lic. phil. I. (insigni cum laude)

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Egyptological & Museum’s Activities

1994 – 2004:
Employment as Egyptologist at several Swiss museums (exhibitions/publications/ guided visits).

Among the museums I’ve worked for are: Antikenmuseum Basel, Historisches Museum Bern, Museum für Völkerkunde Burgdorf, Bibel & Orient Museum Fribourg, Musée cantonal d’archéologie et d’histoire Lausanne, Musée d’ethnographie Neuchâtel.

2004 – ongoing:
Start of the “Schweizer Sargprojekt” (Swiss Coffin Project) co-headed by Alexandra Küffer and Renate Siegmann focusing on coffins, mummy coverings and masks in Swiss museums collections.

2004 – 2007: Twenty-two coffins and coffin fragments as well as seven mummy masks from sixteen Swiss museums undergo a detailed and careful study.

2007: The results are published in a volume entitled “Unter dem Schutz der Himmelsgöttin” (Under the Protection of the Sky Goddess, Chronos, Zürich).

2012: The website www.e-coffins.ch goes online which makes the studied material easily accessible to a wider public. Till 2014, all the pieces included in the 2007 publication as well as previously unpublished objects will be placed on the website.
Besides allowing regular updates on coffin matters, it will also be possible to put the many detailed photographs that were taken of the objects online for interested specialists. Currently 19 Swiss museums are participating in the project.

July 2007 – March 2013:
Co-Director of the Museum für Völkerkunde Burgdorf (Museum of Ethnography Burgdorf).

2010 – 2011:
Guest-curator at the Historisches und Völkerkundemuseum St. Gallen for the exhibition “Im Banne Ägyptens – Begegnungen mit der Ewigkeit” (Spellbound by Egypt – Encounters with Eternity, June 19^th 2010 – March 6^th 2011).

2013 - ongoing:
Curator at the Historisches und Völkerkundemuseum St. Gallen (Historical and Ethnography Museum St. Gallen), responsible for the Egyptian Department.

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Other activities

1999 – ongoing:
Editor of “Nile Times – Forum Antike Kulturen am Nil” (www.niletimes.ch).Teaching activities in the Adult Education Programme at the University of Bern.Tour leader to Egypt and Sudan.

2003 – 2006: Member of the managing committee of the “Ägyptisch - Schweizerischer Kulturklub“(responsible for the Cultural department)