Egypt
The Quad (Jeff Simon)
A summary of the exhibition, which adds very little to previous articles, but has a nice remark about the security:
- Exhibition: Cleopatra At The Franklin Institute
Art Daily With a lovely photo of a diver and a sphinx face to face. The world of Cleopatra, which has been lost to the sea and sand for nearly 2,000 years, will surface in a new exhibition, “Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt,” making...
- 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...
- Exhibition: Crowding At Tutankhamun In Philadelphia
Jaunted A short but clearly stated rebuke to the Franklin Institute about crowds at the Tutankhamun exhibition at the Franlklin Institute. This is a cautionary tale: Last week we went to Philadelphia's Franklin Institute to check out the traveling...
- Latest Figures For Tutankhamun In Philadelphia
http://tinyurl.com/yqlpk5 (philly.com) "Franklin Institute officials are boosting their attendance forecast for the King Tut show halfway through its run at the science museum. The number of visitors now expected to see Tut before it packs up Sept. 30...
- Plans For Tutankhamen In Philadelphia
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/15989183.htm "Tourism promoters are hoping that after their next advertising campaign, even Tut, the boy king, will know Philly's more fun when you sleep over. The Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing...
Egypt
Exhibition: Franklin Institute marks last Tut stop in states
The Quad (Jeff Simon)
A summary of the exhibition, which adds very little to previous articles, but has a nice remark about the security:
Featured in the showcase at the Institute are items ranging from cosmetics cases to dog collars to knives. Coffins and miniature tombs built especially for Tut and his royal predecessors were among the artifacts protected by armed guards.
The guards, hired by the institute to protect the most sacred and priceless antiques, were armed with pistols and at the ready, in the unlikely event that something were to unfold. "No photography is permitted. If you take a picture, you'll be taken out," an armed guard said when asked if a photograph could be taken of one of Tut's masks, so long as a flash was not used.
When I took out a notebook to take down some information about the mask, the guard approached, "No drawing or sketching it either, you'll be removed."
Over 2.5 million people have seen the current King Tut exhibit, and almost half of them have seen it in Philadelphia. More than 1.2 million tickets have been sold to date to people from all over the world that have come to see the exhibit at the Franklin Institute.
See the above for the full story. If you don't live in the U.K., it may have escaped you that the next port of call for the exhibition is London. If you do live in the U.K. you will probably be thoroughly bored with the whole thing by now,a nd the exhibition isn't even here yet!
- Exhibition: Cleopatra At The Franklin Institute
Art Daily With a lovely photo of a diver and a sphinx face to face. The world of Cleopatra, which has been lost to the sea and sand for nearly 2,000 years, will surface in a new exhibition, “Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt,” making...
- 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...
- Exhibition: Crowding At Tutankhamun In Philadelphia
Jaunted A short but clearly stated rebuke to the Franklin Institute about crowds at the Tutankhamun exhibition at the Franlklin Institute. This is a cautionary tale: Last week we went to Philadelphia's Franklin Institute to check out the traveling...
- Latest Figures For Tutankhamun In Philadelphia
http://tinyurl.com/yqlpk5 (philly.com) "Franklin Institute officials are boosting their attendance forecast for the King Tut show halfway through its run at the science museum. The number of visitors now expected to see Tut before it packs up Sept. 30...
- Plans For Tutankhamen In Philadelphia
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/15989183.htm "Tourism promoters are hoping that after their next advertising campaign, even Tut, the boy king, will know Philly's more fun when you sleep over. The Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing...