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The UCL Institute for Cultural Heritage is a planned institute at University College London (UCL) intended to house the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and UCL's other museum collections. It was intended that the institute would be housed in a new building designed to provide a new ceremonial entrance on the east side of UCL's main campus, with entrances on Gower Street, Gordon Street and Gordon Square. Three floors of the building were planned to be devoted to the Petrie Museum, with the entire collection on display or in visible storage for the first time. The building was also planned to have space for temporary exhibitions, a café, lecture facilities, a reading room and a display area for the University of London's collection...