Exhibitions
Ashmolean Museum unveils second big revamp
Image via Wikipedia Only eight months after the new Ashmolean was opened by the Queen following a £61m extension scheme, the museum has submitted plans to refurbish its Egyptian galleries. The work would focus on part of the ground floor in the original Ashmolean building in Beaumont Street which was largely untouched by the major expansion. It... »
Boulder perfumer re-creates ancient Egyptian fragrances for the King Tut show
Perfumer Dawn Spencer Hurwitz of Boulder has re-created the fragrances of ancient Egypt in conjunction with the ” Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs” exhibit at the Denver Art Museum for its gift shop. Hurwitz researched those ancient scents through books at The British Museum in London, works from Egyptian archaeologists and some... »
Museum of Islamic Art about to reopen
Several years ago the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) at Bab El-Khalq area was closed for comprehensive rehabilitation, not only of its building and interior design, but also of its exhibition design and displays. Over the last six years, massive renovation work has been completed to the tune of LE90 million. The MIA first opened... »
King Tut’s Supercar
Of the six chariots found in King Tutankhamun’s tomb, one made its longest ride yet last week when it traveled outside Egypt for the first time in three millennia to the “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” exhibit in New York’s Discovery Times Square Exposition. The chariot, which is usually on display at... »
Haremhab, The General Who Became King at the Met
The ambitious successor of Pharaoh Tutankhamun (r. 1332-1323 B.C.) is the subject of Haremhab, The General Who Became King, opening November 10, 2010 at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. This landmark exhibition’s objects are drawn entirely from the institution’s collection of Egyptian art. Haremhab (r. 1332-1309 B.C.) was the resourceful commander-in-chief of the boy-king... »
William Kentridge at the Louvre: Egyptian Sketchbooks
For the first time in France, the Jeu de Paume presents a retrospective devoted to South African artist William Kentridge, organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Norton Museum of Art. Ancient Egypt is a theme that first appeared in Kentridge’s work in 2004, in preparation for his staging of Mozart’s... »
“Mummies Of The World” in Los Angeles, CA
Image by Wendy McCormac via Flickr On July 1st, “MUMMIES OF THE WORLD,” the largest exhibition of mummies and related artifacts ever assembled, makes its world debut at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, featuring a never-before-seen collection of 150 specimens, including real human and animal mummies and related artifacts from South America, Europe,... »
Sahure: Death and Life of a Great Pharaoh
From June 24 to November 28, 2010 the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung will present the exhibition “Sahure – Death and Life of a Great Pharaoh.” Ruling Egypt from about 2428 to 2416 BC, Sahure was a both politically and culturally outstanding king of the Fifth Dynasty and thus a prominent representative of the Old Kingdom, the “Age... »
Initial stages of new Grand Egyptian Museum completed
The Grand Egyptian Museum now has a power plant, a fire station and its own conservation center, and over the next two years it will become home to some 100,000 artifacts. The main achievement so far is the construction of the new conservation center to restore damaged antiquities. Established with Japanese technical assistance, the center... »
Controversy over Anubis display at Denver airport
The giant depiction of the Egyptian God Anubis that usually accompanies the King Tut exhibit on its tours has created controversy among some residents of Denver, after being assembled and displayed at that city airport. Complaints arose from research done by various residents indicating that Anubis is a god of death and of funeral rites,... »
