between 1887 and 1949. Reputation The museum specialises in objects of daily use, containing over 80,000 objects and ranks among some of the world's leading collections of Egyptian and Sudanese material. It only ranks behind the collections of the Cairo Museum, The British Museum and the Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin in number and quality of items. The museum contains many 'firsts', such as the Tarkhan Dress, confirmed as the world's oldest woven garment. Published works In 2007 Left Coast Press published Living Images: Egypian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum, edited by Janet Picton, Stephen Quirke, and Paul C. Roberts. This book is on the Roman mummy portraits from the Fayum and details their conservation work. In 2014 Bloomsbury Press published Archaeology of Race which "explores the application of racial theory to interpret the past in Britain during the late Victorian and Edwardian period." The book, written by Debbie Chalice, specifically focuses on how Flinders Petrie applied the ideas of Francis Galton on inheritance and race to the discipline of archaeology. In 2015 UCL Press published a multi-author compilation of articles, The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections, which is available in both print and via a free open access download. It is edited by Alice Stevenson. See also List of museums of Egyptian antiquities References Bibliography . . Open access pdf download. . . Further reading External links Petrie Museum website UCL Museum Collections blog Friends of the Petrie Museum Information at Culture24 Digital Egypt site Characters and Collections e-book UCL Institute of Archaeology Archaeological museums in London Museums of University College London Museums established in 1892 Egyptological collections in London University museums in England Museums in the London Borough of Camden Musical instrument museums 1892 establishments in England University museums