American Research Center in Egypt

The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) is an American non-profit dedicated to supporting research in all periods of Egyptian history. It is a member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC).

Previous and current 990 forms that detail the organization's financial holdings and the compensation of its Executive Director and other personnel are available to the public.

History
ARCE was founded in 1948 in Boston by Edward W. Forbes, then the director of the Fogg Museum at Harvard, and Sterling Dow, then president of the Archaeological Institute of America, with the intention of creating a research center in Egypt on the model of similar institutions in Greece and Rome. The center's Egyptian headquarters opened in 1951 in an office at the Office of U.S. Information and Educational Exchange in the American Embassy in Cairo. In its early years, the center received substantial funding from the United States Department of State. In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in 1992, ARCE was chosen by USAID to administer an American-funded initiative to restore damage done to Egypt's tangible cultural heritage. USAID also endowed ARCE with two sizable endowments to support its operations and its activities, providing the organization with substantial financial independence and freedom.

Present activities
ARCE's headquarters are in the Garden City neighborhood of Cairo, with a subsidiary office in Luxor. The United States headquarters are in Alexandria, Virginia. The Cairo Center features a specialist research library and is intended as a base for academics from the United States when conducting research in Egypt. ARCE also awards fellowships for research in Egypt.

Affiliate institutions

 * American University in Cairo
 * Ancient Egypt Research Associates
 * The Ancient Egyptian Heritage and Archaeology Fund
 * Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford University
 * Brigham Young University
 * The British Museum
 * The Brooklyn Museum
 * Brown University
 * Council of American Overseas Research Centers
 * Cultural Association for the Study of Egypt and Sudan
 * DePaul University
 * The Getty Conservation Institute
 * The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
 * Los Angeles County Museum of Art
 * The Metropolitan Museum of Art
 * Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
 * The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
 * Pacific Lutheran University
 * Princeton University
 * University of California, Los Angeles
 * University of Michigan
 * The University of Notre Dame
 * University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
 * York University, Faculty of the Arts
 * York University, Faculty of the Arts