KING TUT EXHIBIT

KING TUT EXHIBIT

The King Tut exhibit at the Minneapolis Museum was in one word “AMAZING”. I have been a King Tut and Egyptian fan since grade 2. To actually see with my own eyes- objects I have seen only in pictures was incredible. My only disappointment was that you were not allowed to take pictures. It was because of these objects were sensitive to flash’s.  I am a picture taker and that was a killer for me not to take any.  Object that were in the exhibit were

-          A bed – the one in the famous picture of the first chamber. A museum employee told me how the bed was damaged by the priests after an early break in. The priests put the bed back on a pile of objects and a horn of the cow statue went through the reed material. You can clearly see it in the original picture.

-          A chair used by Tut as a child

-          His necklaces, earnings, belt buckle, wrist bracelets

-          The mini sarcophagus- just like his main coffin-  used to hold his stomach

-          An exact replica of his mummy made from special CT scans and imagery

-          His golden sandals (on the mummy)

-          His gold fingers and toes covers (on the mummy)

-          His fan with superimposed 3d feathers- made from a picture taken before the original feathers turned to dust after the tomb was opened

-           A giant 20 foot statue of Tut

-          A checkers like game board and pieces

-          His miniature boat made to take him into the afterlife

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The only thing which was not there which I really wanted to see was his death mask. That to me is the most amazing object in history. It is considered too fragile and does not leave Egypt.

Other interesting Egyptian artifacts were

-          A cat sarcophagus with mummified cat inside which belonged to Ramses 2 

-          A golden death mask belonging to   PSUSENNES 1   which was beautiful.

-          Countless statues 

A TON OF OTHER AMAZING ARTIFACTS