Egypt
New York Times (Eve M. Kahn)
With photos.
Just News
Slideshow of the new Egyptian gallery at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami.
- Rare Ancient Egyptian "book Of The Dead" To Go On View At Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum Press Release Final Section, Completing Rare Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, To Go on View September 28, 2011 Following a three-year-long conservation project, the final section of the rare, thirty-five-centuries-old Egyptian Book of...
- Exhibitions
Tutankhamun in San Francisco Al Ahram Weekly By Zahi HawassHawass talks about how permission was granted for the exhibition to travel to San Francisco, overturning a decision that was made for San Francisco to be included from the list of venues. Child...
- In The Lab
Another mummy goes through the scanner Miami Herald Christine Veiga With the push of a button, the CT scanner whirred and lurched forward. A centuries-old mummy was about to undergo a 21st-century medical examination. In the name of art and science,...
- Mummies In Miami
The Bass Museum of Art will unveil today two mummies today that will be exhibited in the museum. One of the mummies has long been in the museums basement while the other has been donated for the show....
- The Miami Mummy
The recent rediscovery of the mummy in the Bass museum collection has resulted in a ct scan of the mummy. The mummy will be put on display in the museum with the findings of its examination. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/northeast/story/1285498.html...
Egypt
Bringing Out the Mummies at the Bass Museum
New York Times (Eve M. Kahn)
With photos.
To expand audiences for cultural attractions in grim economic times, why not bring out a corpse or two, preferably from ancient Egypt?
“People who are not necessarily interested in going to museums are all very interested in this,” said Silvia Cubiñá, the executive director of the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, which will unveil two mummies in a new Egyptian gallery on Friday. One, swaddled in crisscrossing fabric, had long been in the museum’s storerooms, and when a local collector found out that it would go on view, he donated another with its coffin, in the shape of a longhaired youth wearing necklaces.
Half a dozen institutions this spring are also bringing out the dead, and marketing them with catchy phrases. “Very Postmortem” is the title of a display of Irethorrou, a 2,500-year-old priest, at the Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco (on view through Halloween, of course).
On Wednesday the long-term installation “The Mummy Chamber” opens at the Brooklyn Museum, and the Bass Museum has set up a “mummy hotline” (786-343-6341) for show information.
Curators are enlivening the galleries with scientific discoveries: computer screens display CT scans of the skeletons.
Just News
Slideshow of the new Egyptian gallery at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami.
- Rare Ancient Egyptian "book Of The Dead" To Go On View At Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum Press Release Final Section, Completing Rare Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, To Go on View September 28, 2011 Following a three-year-long conservation project, the final section of the rare, thirty-five-centuries-old Egyptian Book of...
- Exhibitions
Tutankhamun in San Francisco Al Ahram Weekly By Zahi HawassHawass talks about how permission was granted for the exhibition to travel to San Francisco, overturning a decision that was made for San Francisco to be included from the list of venues. Child...
- In The Lab
Another mummy goes through the scanner Miami Herald Christine Veiga With the push of a button, the CT scanner whirred and lurched forward. A centuries-old mummy was about to undergo a 21st-century medical examination. In the name of art and science,...
- Mummies In Miami
The Bass Museum of Art will unveil today two mummies today that will be exhibited in the museum. One of the mummies has long been in the museums basement while the other has been donated for the show....
- The Miami Mummy
The recent rediscovery of the mummy in the Bass museum collection has resulted in a ct scan of the mummy. The mummy will be put on display in the museum with the findings of its examination. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/northeast/story/1285498.html...