Discoveries on the Nile: Exploring King Tut’s Tomb and the Amin Egyptian Collection
On View October 4, 2024 Through September 30, 2025
Located in the The Republic Finance Gallery, Main 2 Gallery, Catwalk Galler, and Soupçon Gallery
A year-long exhibit celebrating the 60th anniversary of the acquisition of the Egyptian mummy at LASM.
An exhibition in partnership with art collector Giovanni Amin featuring certified reproductions of artifacts from the tomb of King Tut and authentic Egyptian funeral masks. This exhibition will be displayed across four of the museum’s galleries until 2025.
A year-long exhibit celebrating the 60th anniversary of the acquisition of the Egyptian mummy at LASM.
An exhibition in partnership with art collector Giovanni Amin featuring certified reproductions of artifacts from the tomb of King Tut and authentic Egyptian funeral masks. This exhibition will be displayed across four of the museum’s galleries until 2025.
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About the Exhibit
Includes Visions of the Divine: Exploring Egyptian Gods and God-Kings and Funerary Masks from the Amin Collection.
Includes:
- Almost 200 artifacts and high-quality reproductions displayed in The Republic Finance Gallery and throughout the museum.
- 22 authentic ancient Egyptian funerary masks on display in the Soupcon Gallery.
- A giant reproduction of an Egyptian obelisk on display in the Bert S. Turner Family Atrium.
- A 3D model of King Tut’s tomb modeled and designed by local artist Brad Bourgoyne.
- Writings by Howard Carter, the Egyptologist who excavated the tomb in the 1920s.
- Photographs by Harry Burton from the excavation.
- Story panels on the Egyptian religion.
- Egyptomania Gallery highlighting the influence that Egypt has had on culture for decades.
- Our permanent Egyptian Gallery, with a mummified person, celebrating 60 years at LASM this year. (2024)
The treasures in the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun or King Tutankhamun captivated Giovanni Amin and the world.
The tomb, also known as KV 62, contained over 5,000 objects of art.
It was the first and only burial ever found intact of the over 60 tombs discovered in the Valley of the Kings.
It is considered one of history’s most important archaeological findings and has remained an international sensation since its rediscovery in 1922.
Through this year-long focus on Ancient Egypt, LASM and Giovanni Amin aim to inspire the next generation of artists and scientists by encouraging discovery.
