Egypt
Manchester Confidential (Nonathan Schofield)
The exhibition is also covered by Ann Wuyts on Heritage Key, with a link to a video on You Tube.
- Exhibition: Tutankhamun Replicas On Display In Manchester
mirror.co.uk With photos. Amid the eye-catching gold and glitter, there is no escaping the eerie stare from Tutankhamun’s death mask. Its ancient all-seeing gaze seems to follow you around the tomb. This is what it must have felt like when explorer...
- Exhibition: Replicas Of Tutankhamun Tomb In Madrid, Spain
Think Spain Madrid's Casa de Campo is to play host to a life-size replica of Tutankhamun's tomb, in a new concept of exhibitions that plans to show not just famous artefacts, but also the setting in which they were found. According to the exhibition's...
- Exhibition: Rediscovering The Tomb Of Tutankhamun
WRS World Radio (Audio report) WRS World Radio (Text introduction to report, with extracts from the audio report) The discovery of the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun in 1922 ranks as one of the most sensational finds of the century. Now an exhibition...
- Celebrating The Birthday Of Tutankhamun
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/772/he1.htm"As 2005 drew towards a close, the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square celebrated the 83rd anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb with a gala party. This featured the opening of a landmark exhibition...
- Metropolitan Returns Tutankhamun Objects
It has long been known about objects being in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York which came to the museum via Howard Carter and his associates as well as other museums. Mr. Carter appears to have created a collection of pocket sized objects from...
Egypt
Exhibition: Replica Tutankhamun
Manchester Confidential (Nonathan Schofield)
I took two ten year olds to King Tut and they loved it.
I loved it.
Close to the Trafford Centre, in an old Argos warehouse now called the Museum of Museums is a vast travelling show named ‘Tutankhamun, his tomb and treasures’.
Given its location away from the established city galleries with their professional and trained curatorial staff, I confess I was worried about what I might find. The name Museum of Museums is plain silly for starters - shouldn’t the Museum of Museums have other museums in it?
Did the choice of name for the venue mean the exhibition would be a shockingly poor, camp slice of history-lite guff?
Not at all.
Instead the boys and I enjoyed a cleverly delivered reconstruction of the finding of Tut back in 1922 by adventurer Howard Carter and his financial backer Lord Carnarvon.
Particularly good were a series of spectacular and dramatically lit tableaux underpinned by a very good audio that kept the ten year olds listening. The audio managed this by not talking down to the boys, but describing the scenes unfolding in front of them in an engagingly straightforward manner.
The exhibition is also covered by Ann Wuyts on Heritage Key, with a link to a video on You Tube.
The exhibition runs until late February 2011. More information is available from the exhibtion's website.
- Exhibition: Tutankhamun Replicas On Display In Manchester
mirror.co.uk With photos. Amid the eye-catching gold and glitter, there is no escaping the eerie stare from Tutankhamun’s death mask. Its ancient all-seeing gaze seems to follow you around the tomb. This is what it must have felt like when explorer...
- Exhibition: Replicas Of Tutankhamun Tomb In Madrid, Spain
Think Spain Madrid's Casa de Campo is to play host to a life-size replica of Tutankhamun's tomb, in a new concept of exhibitions that plans to show not just famous artefacts, but also the setting in which they were found. According to the exhibition's...
- Exhibition: Rediscovering The Tomb Of Tutankhamun
WRS World Radio (Audio report) WRS World Radio (Text introduction to report, with extracts from the audio report) The discovery of the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun in 1922 ranks as one of the most sensational finds of the century. Now an exhibition...
- Celebrating The Birthday Of Tutankhamun
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/772/he1.htm"As 2005 drew towards a close, the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square celebrated the 83rd anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb with a gala party. This featured the opening of a landmark exhibition...
- Metropolitan Returns Tutankhamun Objects
It has long been known about objects being in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York which came to the museum via Howard Carter and his associates as well as other museums. Mr. Carter appears to have created a collection of pocket sized objects from...