Egypt
- Egyptian Art Exhibit Coming To Cal State San Bernardino Museum Nov. 22
The Press EnterpriseFor the first time in history, a portion of his extraordinary findings have come to the United States in "Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology." So far, the exhibit has traveled to such...
- Tutankhamun Is A Big Draw Right To The End
The Philadelphia Inquirer With only one weekend to go, the Franklin Institute wanted to cram every last second it could into its nearly eight-month King Tut exhibit. So it did just that. The doors to Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs have...
- Exhibition: Opening Hours For Final Weekend Of Tutankhamun
Courier Post Online For anyone in a position to make a last mad dash to the exhibition in Philadelphia, the Franklin Institute has changed its opening hours for the final weekend, to meet an anticipated last-minute influx. The new opening hours will be...
- Tutankhamun In London
UPI The new exhibit of treasures from King Tutankhamun's tomb at London's O2 domed stadium is expected to be the country's largest art show in nearly 50 years. It was announced Friday that advance reservations for the Egyptian exhibit, which...
- 500,000 Visitors To Tutankhamun At The Field
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=4416927The last report I posteed about ticket sales in Chicago announced that they had just past 400,000 visitors at the end of June. This very brief report announces that another 100,000 visitors...
Egypt
Exhibition: Tutankhamun already a success in Philadelphia
http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/state/all-a4_5tutfeb04,0,1523762.story
"On Saturday, a sold-out crowd of 5,000 people passed through the exhibit of nearly 130 treasures from the tomb of the boy king and other royal relatives from the 18th Dynasty.Museum staff say they expect the exhibit, on the fourth and final stop of its tour of the United States, to draw more than a million people by the time it closes in September. More than 400,000 advance tickets have been sold.Beginning at 9 a.m., pharaoh fans with reservations filed into the exhibit in groups of 300 every half-hour. To many a visitor's surprise, the morning crowd did not result in crowds in the museum lobby or a queue at the exhibit entrance."
See the above page for more.
A new summary of the exhibition and its background can be found at
A new summary of the exhibition and its background can be found at
http://tinyurl.com/2c8ew4 (delawareonline.com):
"For all of the hoopla -- during the press preview, representatives of the show's corporate sponsors unleashed a blizzard of superlatives and self-congratulatory back rubs -- the most significant facet of the exhibit might be the context it provides for a period many scholars of ancient Egypt consider to have been relatively uneventful.
The exhibit is a narrative experience, a chronological trail that forces visitors to pass through several galleries whose relations to Tut are indirect -- a granite statue depicts Tuthmosis IV, 'perhaps the great-grandfather of Tutankhamen'; a gilded coffin in the center of one gallery belonged to Tjuya, possibly Tut's great-grandmother."
The exhibit is a narrative experience, a chronological trail that forces visitors to pass through several galleries whose relations to Tut are indirect -- a granite statue depicts Tuthmosis IV, 'perhaps the great-grandfather of Tutankhamen'; a gilded coffin in the center of one gallery belonged to Tjuya, possibly Tut's great-grandmother."
- Egyptian Art Exhibit Coming To Cal State San Bernardino Museum Nov. 22
The Press EnterpriseFor the first time in history, a portion of his extraordinary findings have come to the United States in "Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology." So far, the exhibit has traveled to such...
- Tutankhamun Is A Big Draw Right To The End
The Philadelphia Inquirer With only one weekend to go, the Franklin Institute wanted to cram every last second it could into its nearly eight-month King Tut exhibit. So it did just that. The doors to Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs have...
- Exhibition: Opening Hours For Final Weekend Of Tutankhamun
Courier Post Online For anyone in a position to make a last mad dash to the exhibition in Philadelphia, the Franklin Institute has changed its opening hours for the final weekend, to meet an anticipated last-minute influx. The new opening hours will be...
- Tutankhamun In London
UPI The new exhibit of treasures from King Tutankhamun's tomb at London's O2 domed stadium is expected to be the country's largest art show in nearly 50 years. It was announced Friday that advance reservations for the Egyptian exhibit, which...
- 500,000 Visitors To Tutankhamun At The Field
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=4416927The last report I posteed about ticket sales in Chicago announced that they had just past 400,000 visitors at the end of June. This very brief report announces that another 100,000 visitors...