NEW YORK – Visitors can relive the moment when archeologist Howard Carter walked into the undisturbed tomb of Tutankhamun at Premier Exhibitions 5th Avenue’s upcoming exhibition. Starting November 21, the museum will unveil “The Discovery of King Tut,” a new exhibition created to allow guests to experience the legendary tomb and its treasures.
The exhibition comes to the Big Apple after a worldwide tour in cities including Paris, Seoul, Berlin and Madrid. The exhibit showcases more than 1,000 expertly crated replicas and reconstructions of the tomb’s burial items. It allows visitors to view King Tut’s treasures without traveling the originals in Egypt’s Cairo Museum.
An audio tour based on Carter’s diaries and video documentaries walks guests through exact reconstructions of three chambers from Tutankhamun’s tomb in the same condition Carter found them. Information on the 1922 tomb discovery and the 3,000-year-old boy king who reigned for a decade before dying at 19 also compliment the reproductions.
Starting December 4, guests touring the exhibit can also opt to listen to a Tut Talk from renown speakers, such as the former head of Antiquities in Egypt, Zahi Hawass. The museum will also feature a special gallery, “King Tut and New York” to reveal how a 1976 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art unleashed “Egyptomania” across the city.
For more information, visit www.tutnyc.com.
