Tutankhamun’s Funeral at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art presents the special exhibition Tutankhamun’s Funeral from March 16 to September 6, 2010. The installation features 60 objects used in the mummification and religious rituals associated with the boy-king’s burial. Most of the artifacts are derived from the museum’s permanent collection.

The museum’s installation is greatly enhanced by the presence of a limestone Head of Tutankhamun (ca. 1336-1327 B.C.) and several facsimile paintings depicting ancient Egyptian funerary rites. Archival photographs taken by Harry Burton (1879-1940) during the excavation of the pharaoh’s modest and unfinished tomb round out the presentation.

Art Museum Journal

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Tags: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tutankhamun

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