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Here is some info from the Phoebe Hearst Museum's Centennial:

www.berkeley.edu/news/berk...hears.html

"The museum’s major founding collections include the largest assemblage of ancient Egyptian artifacts west of Chicago. Approximately 20,000 objects span Egyptian prehistory and history, from Paleolithic to early Islamic times. Its core — materials such as beads, stone statuary, clothing, pottery vessels, shrouds, coffins, amulets and tools of stone, metal, wood, ivory and bone — was collected by George Reisner."

"Preparing the centennial exhibit, which features about 700 objects, was a daunting task because the museum’s space does not match the size and value of its prized collection. Its limited gallery space can accommodate less than 1 percent of the Heart Museum’s estimated 4 million artifacts. A former museum director once estimated that it would take 300 years to rotate all of the Hearst objects through the museum’s gallery displays."