The Spurlock Museum traces its origins to a pair of cultural museums established by the University’s Board of Trustees on July 8, 1911: the Museum of Classical Archaeology and Art and the Museum of European Cultures. They were located on the 4th floor of the newly-built Lincoln Hall on the University Quadrangle. In 1917 an “Oriental Museum,” joined the other two, primarily to focus upon the civilizations of the Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia and Egypt.
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[1] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/destination-country/usa
[2] http://www.spurlock.illinois.edu/search/index.php
[3] http://w2.spurlock.illinois.edu/about/history/
[4] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/tags/spurlock-museum
[5] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/tags/mrs-william-gold-hibbard