ACCES: Association of Curators for Collections from Egypt and Sudan

"ACCES is the first curators’ group in the UK for curators who are responsible for collections from ancient Egypt and Sudan. Founded in May 2006, the group grew out of an MLA-funded Specialist Subject Network in Egyptology. For more information, visit www.mla.gov.uk.The aims and objectives of ACCES are:to promote the interests of museum collections from Egypt and the Sudan in the UK to encourage good practice in the curatorship, collections management, and interpretation of UK collections from Egypt and Sudanto encourage, facilitate, and disseminate research on UK collections from Egypt and Sudanto foster networks and collaborations among museum professionals, university academics, and postgraduate students working in Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology and philology, museum studies, and archaeological conservation to promote public engagement with UK collections from Egypt and Sudan, to encourage new audiences and increase educational use"