Egypt
Forbes.com (Sarah Wolff)
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- Exhibition: Tutankhamun In New York
abc local (Sandra Bookman) With video of exhibitin preview. For the first time in more than three decades, King Tut is back in New York. And this time around, we know a lot more about the ancient boy king. It's the last stop of an eight-city tour,...
- Exhibition: Tutankhamun's Funeral
SILive (Michael J. Fressola) Now that “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” is headed this way (opening Friday in the Times Square Discovery Center), it’s the perfect time to attend “Tutankhamun’s Funeral” a small but disproportionately...
- Exhibition: Tutankhamun In Canada
The Globe and Mail (James Adams) The boy-king of ancient Egypt who "gave his life for tourism," as comedian Steve Martin famously sang in 1979, returns to Canada this fall for a five-month visit. The Art Gallery of Ontario announced yesterday that it...
- Figures On The U.s. Leg Of The Tutankhamun Tour
International Herald Tribune The Franklin Institute Science Museum's blockbuster King Tut show has turned out to be its most popular exhibit ever. Officials said Monday that more than 1.3 million people visited the exhibit "Tutankhamun and the Golden...
- Tutankhamun Ticket Sales Approaching Record Levels In Philadelphia
Philadelphia Business Journal To date, the Franklin Institute has sold 1.2 million tickets for "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs," which opened Feb. 3 and closes Sept. 30. The previous record of 1.3 million visitors was set in 1977 when...
Egypt
Exhibition: Body Parts at the Brooklyn
Forbes.com (Sarah Wolff)
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Besides ensuring tourism and providing storylines for scores of feature films, the mystique of ancient Egypt also launched a specific sort of museum show that has become de rigueur for large institutions: the blockbuster. When the traveling exhibition Treasures of Tutankhamun came to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1979, it broke all the museum's previous attendance records and became famous enough to merit a spoof on Saturday Night Live.
Some of these treasures will return to New York City next April when the Discovery Times Square Exposition hosts Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs. The exhibit, which features 50 artifacts from Tut's tomb as well as 80 from other royal pharaohs, will undoubtedly draw major attendance. But blockbusters like these are also expensive to mount--an obvious problem in this scaled-back economy that has hit museums particularly hard.
- Exhibition: Tutankhamun In New York
abc local (Sandra Bookman) With video of exhibitin preview. For the first time in more than three decades, King Tut is back in New York. And this time around, we know a lot more about the ancient boy king. It's the last stop of an eight-city tour,...
- Exhibition: Tutankhamun's Funeral
SILive (Michael J. Fressola) Now that “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” is headed this way (opening Friday in the Times Square Discovery Center), it’s the perfect time to attend “Tutankhamun’s Funeral” a small but disproportionately...
- Exhibition: Tutankhamun In Canada
The Globe and Mail (James Adams) The boy-king of ancient Egypt who "gave his life for tourism," as comedian Steve Martin famously sang in 1979, returns to Canada this fall for a five-month visit. The Art Gallery of Ontario announced yesterday that it...
- Figures On The U.s. Leg Of The Tutankhamun Tour
International Herald Tribune The Franklin Institute Science Museum's blockbuster King Tut show has turned out to be its most popular exhibit ever. Officials said Monday that more than 1.3 million people visited the exhibit "Tutankhamun and the Golden...
- Tutankhamun Ticket Sales Approaching Record Levels In Philadelphia
Philadelphia Business Journal To date, the Franklin Institute has sold 1.2 million tickets for "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs," which opened Feb. 3 and closes Sept. 30. The previous record of 1.3 million visitors was set in 1977 when...