Exhibitions
‘Night at Museum’ to unwrap mummy mysteries
The Barnum Museum will come alive for a very dead lady on March 25. That’s when a diminutive 5-foot 4-inch, 30-something with high cheek bones and a penchant for seasoning her veggies with sand will become a living, breathing person through the findings of Quinnipiac University’s Bioanthropology Research Institute. After her nearly 4,000-year sleep and... »
Meroe: Ancient conquerors of Egypt
At the end of March, the Louvre will host its first exhibition on the Meroe dynasty, the last in a line of ‘black pharaohs’ that ruled Kush for more than 1,000 years until the kingdom’s demise in 350 AD. Meroe lies around 200 kilometres (120 miles) northeast of Sudan’s capital Khartoum and was the last... »
No mummy no showy
Image via Wikipedia The Boston Museum of Fine Art’s touring exhibition “World of the Pharaohs: Treasures of Egypt Revealed”, currently in Little Rock, Arkansas, won’t travel to the Huntsville Museum of Art in Alabama. The reasons: Lack of funds – the museum would have to allocate $500,000, including a $140,000 deposit, to install, prepare and display the... »
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... »
The Great Game: Archaeology and Politics in the Colonial Period
The Ruhr Museum in Essen in the west of Germany has now assembled a show entitled, The Great Game: Archaeology and Politics in the Colonial Period. It takes a look at the treasure-hunting era before archaeology settled down to become just another academic subject. Charlotte Truempler, head of the archaeology department of the new museum,... »
Art forger finally gets his retrospective show
The Victoria and Albert Museum presents a unique collection of over 100 forged paintings and sculptures seized by the capital’s Metropolitan Police. Shown to the public for the first time, the collection includes fake antiquities, paintings attributed to English painter L.S. Lowry, Roman vessels and medieval jewelry from the workshop of Shaun Greenhalgh, called the... »
Lego exhibition at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
Image via Wikipedia A touring exhibition that has been traveling to museums and science centers across the globe has landed a permanent home at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square. In “Secrets of the Pharaohs”, Egypt’s ancient monuments have been rebuilt in the basement exhibition area of the museum — entirely in Lego. Scale models of some... »
The Eternal Light of Egypt – The Photography of Sarite Sanders
In this exhibition, contemporary photographer Sarite Sanders approaches Egypt’s ancient monuments like a 19th century traveler, purposely ignoring color and human presence, creating the illusion of distant structures just emerged from the sands of time and seen for the first time. Using infrared film 35mm film that the photographer now calls “extinct”, Sanders contrasts the... »
‘1001 Inventions: Discover the Muslim Heritage in Our World’
From about 700 to 1700, many of history’s finest scientists and technologists were to be found in the Muslim world. In Christian Europe the light of scientific inquiry had largely been extinguished with the collapse of the Roman empire. But it survived, and indeed blazed brightly, elsewhere. From Moorish Spain across North Africa to Damascus, Baghdad,... »
Exhibition: “Ippolito Rosellini and the Dawn of Egyptology”
From 1828-29, a Franco-Tuscan team of artists, architects, engineers and naturalists was sent to Egypt on an expedition headed by French Egyptologist and decipherer of hieroglyphs Jean-Francois Champollion, in collaboration with Italian Ippolito Rossellini. Nearly 1,400 drawings and watercolors of ancient Egyptian scenes from monuments across Egypt exist in a portfolio prepared by the expedition... »
