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- 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...
- Exhibition: The Mummy Chamber In New York, Summer 2010
http://artmuseumjournal.com/mummy_chamber.aspx The Mummy Chamber, a long-term installation of more than 170 artifacts that explores the ancient Egyptians' complex funerary rituals and beliefs associated with mummification, opens at the Brooklyn Museum...
- Exhibition: To Live Forever At Indianapolis
Art Daily The Indianapolis Museum of Art will be the first venue to host To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum, which will be on view July 13 – September 7, 2008. Featuring approximately 120 objects dating from 3600 B.C. to 400...
- Mummies In Brooklyn Museum To Undergo Scientific Study
Brooklyn Daily Eagle The Brooklyn Museum Conservation Laboratory is beginning a study of the human and animal mummies in the Museum’s collection, using the tools of modern-day scientific investigation to reveal new information about mummification practices...
- Wv 22?
I have noticed on a number of sites that one of the mummies recently studied by Dr. Hawass has been given the designation of WV 22. The mummy in question was found in the Valley of kings in KV 35 in a side chamber with an inscription identifying it as...
Egypt
Mummy on display for first time since 1952
New York Times
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WHEN it comes to names for Egyptian mummies, there’s no question that Anonymous Man lacks the royal heft of, say, King Tutankhamun. Even the Anonymous Man’s nickname, Melvin, isn’t quite a head turner.
Even so, as crowds swarm the mummy-less exhibition of treasures of the predictably famous King Tut at the Discovery Times Square Exposition, Melvin the Mummy has a good story to tell. The tale is noteworthy for his recent and innovative restoration — basically an extreme mummy makeover — and his harrowing and unlikely 1,700-year journey from ancient Egypt to a 21st-century exhibition vitrine in Brooklyn.
The Brooklyn Museum is currently displaying Melvin for the first time since he entered its collection in 1952. He has been cleaned up, rewrapped and is stretched out beneath his boldly painted cartonnage, or decorative covering — he looks a bit like a Byzantine Jesus graced with Groucho Marx eyebrows — as part of “The Mummy Chamber.” The 170-work exhibition is dedicated to the artifacts of the afterlife and is scheduled to be on long-term view.
- 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...
- Exhibition: The Mummy Chamber In New York, Summer 2010
http://artmuseumjournal.com/mummy_chamber.aspx The Mummy Chamber, a long-term installation of more than 170 artifacts that explores the ancient Egyptians' complex funerary rituals and beliefs associated with mummification, opens at the Brooklyn Museum...
- Exhibition: To Live Forever At Indianapolis
Art Daily The Indianapolis Museum of Art will be the first venue to host To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum, which will be on view July 13 – September 7, 2008. Featuring approximately 120 objects dating from 3600 B.C. to 400...
- Mummies In Brooklyn Museum To Undergo Scientific Study
Brooklyn Daily Eagle The Brooklyn Museum Conservation Laboratory is beginning a study of the human and animal mummies in the Museum’s collection, using the tools of modern-day scientific investigation to reveal new information about mummification practices...
- Wv 22?
I have noticed on a number of sites that one of the mummies recently studied by Dr. Hawass has been given the designation of WV 22. The mummy in question was found in the Valley of kings in KV 35 in a side chamber with an inscription identifying it as...