Museum mummy has a new name

A CREEPY curiosity which calls Warrington museum home has finally got a new name.
All sorts of weird and wonderful names were put forward during the summer when museum staff asked visitors to ‘name our mummy’ – the coin operated curiosity at the front of the museum.
In the end, ‘Dead Fred’, suggested by Ethan Nevins of Woolston, buried the competition, including Indiana Bones, who put up a good fight, to become the name of one of the museum’s younger inhabitants.
Dead Fred is actually only a few months old. He was created by student designer Paul Fay and donated to the museum.
However, the coffin he rises up from, also built by Paul, is based on a key exhibit, the painted Egyptian coffin in the Ethnology Gallery, which is more than 3,000 years old.
The old coffin was given to the museum in 1905 as a gift from the Egypt Exploration Fund.
Dead Fred has proved to be a popular exhibit at the museum. He is still on display and he is still known to point his bony finger at unsuspecting visitors.