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Oriental Museum, Durham University

Address:
Elvet Hill
Durham
County Durham
DH1 3TH

T: 0191 334 5694

W: www.dur.ac.uk/oriental.museum

  • Paintings 16th-19th C
  • Sculpture 11th-19th C
  • Antiquities
  • Ethnography
  • Costume and textiles

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The Oriental Museum holds collections of ancient art and archaeology from Egypt, China, India and Islamic North Africa. Highlights include Chinese jade carvings and textiles, ceramics from China and the Middle Eas and a collection of Ancient Egyptian artefacts collected in the 19th century, as well as Ghandaran sculpture and Mughal miniature paintings.

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