Berlin - Berlin's Egyptology Museum, possessor of the bust of Queen Nefertiti and other great pharaonic treasures, is to gain a new chief, Friederike Seyfried, 49, board members decided Friday. She replaces Dietrich Wildung who retires at the end of this month.
Seyfried, who is a veteran of digs in
Egypt and is currently custodian of an egyptology
museum in Leipzig, will oversee the
Berlin museum's re-opening this October in a refurbished building, the Neues Museum, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation said.
Key items, including the queen's bust, have been displayed since 2005 in another building, the Altes Museum.
