King Tut....Funky Tut
Yesterday we went to see the Discover Channel’s King Tutankhamen exhibit. When Tut mania first hit the US, I didn’t see the exhibit but had a number of friends who did and either enjoyed it or were rather creeped out by it. I enjoyed Egyptology and the like but was a little too young to travel to the exhibit on my own.
Caroline has an interest in all thing Egypt due to various things that have crossed her path including the idea of the Mummy’s Curse as done in Phineas and Ferb. Ariel was interested as well. So we went in for a family trip to see the exhibit since Ariel is off to college today.
I have been through a lot of exhibits in my lifetime. I have built and designed exhibits for museums. I give them major points for the layout which allowed a large number of people to see the artifacts without feeling crowded and having things set up so you could look at the back of the artifact as well as the front. Also they had the cards to each piece in front of the artifact and above it so you could read it from just about any angle. They let people in at a steady rate but did so in groups that didn’t overwhelm the space.
As for the artifacts themselves, well it wasn’t as many as the original but there were very choice pieces to be views. And they took it from both the historical point of view and the archeological point of view so you had two threads winding through the exhibit. I found the religious aspect very interesting as Tutankhamen tried to undo what his father did which caused great civil unrest.
Other fun things is that they teach you how to find Tutankhamen’s cartouche rather early so Caroline and I went through the rest of the exhibit trying to find it on his stuff. Sort of an Egyptian version of the Hidden Mickey game. And it was there more times than not.
I don’t know if this was the last stop on the tour but if it is swinging through your town, it is worth a look.
I am grateful that we took the time to do this. Caroline found it fascinating until we got to the body of the mummy and then she got creeped out.
Caroline has an interest in all thing Egypt due to various things that have crossed her path including the idea of the Mummy’s Curse as done in Phineas and Ferb. Ariel was interested as well. So we went in for a family trip to see the exhibit since Ariel is off to college today.
I have been through a lot of exhibits in my lifetime. I have built and designed exhibits for museums. I give them major points for the layout which allowed a large number of people to see the artifacts without feeling crowded and having things set up so you could look at the back of the artifact as well as the front. Also they had the cards to each piece in front of the artifact and above it so you could read it from just about any angle. They let people in at a steady rate but did so in groups that didn’t overwhelm the space.
As for the artifacts themselves, well it wasn’t as many as the original but there were very choice pieces to be views. And they took it from both the historical point of view and the archeological point of view so you had two threads winding through the exhibit. I found the religious aspect very interesting as Tutankhamen tried to undo what his father did which caused great civil unrest.
Other fun things is that they teach you how to find Tutankhamen’s cartouche rather early so Caroline and I went through the rest of the exhibit trying to find it on his stuff. Sort of an Egyptian version of the Hidden Mickey game. And it was there more times than not.
I don’t know if this was the last stop on the tour but if it is swinging through your town, it is worth a look.
I am grateful that we took the time to do this. Caroline found it fascinating until we got to the body of the mummy and then she got creeped out.