州立エジプト美術博物館（ミュンヒェン）のリニューアル : ヴィッテルスバッハ家のエジプトコレクション

The State Museum of Egyptian Art (Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst) in Munich, which reopened in June 2013 after undergoing renovation, does not have its own building; it is built underground of the University of Television and Film Munich (Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München). The history of the museum and the origins of its collection items can be traced back to the Kunstkammer of Duke Albert V of Bavaria (Herzog Albrecht V. von Bayern). Later, through the collections of Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria and Palatinate (Kurfürst Karl Theodor) during the latter half of eighteenth century and Ludwig I of Bavaria (Ludwig I., König von Bayern), the Munich collection of ancient Egyptian art rapidly increased. In addition, the museum received donations by individual supporters such as Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing (Freiherr Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing), and today operates through subsidies from the Friends of the Egyptian Collection in Munich (Freundkreis der Ägyptischen Sammlung München e.V.). Duke Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria (Herzog Maximilian Joseph in Bayern) is one of the members of the House of Wittelsbach who contributed to the growth of Munich's Orient Collection. He was called Duke Max (Herzog Max) and is the father of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (known by the affectionate nickname of Sissi), upon whom the heroine of a historical musical would later be based. With only a few attendants, Duke Max made a trip to the Orient in 1838 during which he visited Alexandria, Cairo and Jerusalem, made the acquaintance of Muhammad Ali, and collected many Egyptian excavated artifacts. Today, over half of this collection is kept and publically displayed at the Banz Abbey (Kloster Banz). Among the characteristics of the Munich Egyptian museum are its hands-on exhibits emphasizing experience. For example, this exhibition approach makes a distinct contrast with that of the Neues Museum in Berlin, a fixture of urban tourism where tourists flock and draw long lines in front of the admissions ticket counter, whose Egyptian Museum boasts exhibits that display a large number of collection items in enormous exhibit spaces.