That is more than the number of artefacts that has ever been seen at once outside of Egypt. But why the last? One of the gold chariots was on display in the Egyptian National Military Museum. Scheduled to open in , the Grand Egyptian Museum will tell the story of 3, years of ancient Egyptian history with over , artefacts.
The new museum will also be the final resting place of the Tutankhamun collection. It is reported that around 7, square metres of display space has been allocated to this extraordinary collection of funerary objects.
Finally the news Bostonians have been waiting for! The exhibition has been postponed from its June opening date to the Fall of It is likely to be around six months, coordinating with the renovations at the Australian Museum in Sydney, where the touring exhibition is due in Based on the demand for tickets at previous venues, where there have been sellout attendances, the Boston exhibition released a certain number of tickets using a lottery system.
This presale lottery is now closed. There will be a box office on site to purchase tickets. As tickets will be in high demand and sessions are expected to sell out, the organisers advise to book in advance.
As yet, no dates have been provided for advance booking. We will update the information on this page as soon as we have it. Official Website. In June it was announced that the Australian Museum in Sydney would receive 50 million Australian dollars to enable the museum to host major international exhibitions.
Existing storage space will be refurbished to allow the international touring exhibition halls to be expanded significantly. Besides a new exhibition space, education facilities and other amenities will be created to increase visitor numbers. The transformed Australian Museum will be ready to host the touring Tutankhamun treasures exhibition early in The Tutankhamun exhibition is a game-changer for Sydney and Australia. Don Harwin, New South Wales Minister for the Arts Because of worldwide travel restrictions, the touring programme for the exhibition has been interrupted.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the dates for the exhibition at the Australia Museum have been postponed with no future dates.
The original announcement on the museum's website is still live, but it is not promoted anywhere on the website. This follows two highly successful exhibitions of the Pharaoh's funerary objects, in and These two exhibitions attracted over one million visitors, and in each there were less than 55 objects on show.
Entry to the exhibition will be on a timed entry basis, and are sold for time slots every 30 minutes: 9. Most people take somewhere between an hour and an hour and a half to go through the exhibition. You are not, however, restricted in how long you can spend inside the exhibition.
Ticket prices for weekdays are cheaper than weekends, off peak and peak tickets respectively. These prices do not include a booking fee.
Book as far ahead as possible, as the website has a number of warnings about the possibility of price changes. This could change. Ticket purchases for groups of 15 or more is possible through Ticketmaster contact Ticketmaster Group Sales in the UK on Sign up for the newsletter on the official website for notification of ticket sales for individuals. Use public transport to get to the exhibition venue, as it is in central London and there is no parking on site.
The nearest tube station is Sloane Square - when you exit the station, just walk straight ahead down King's Road, past Peter Jones store, and you will see signs to Tutankhamun Exhibition on your left.
The walk takes about 3 minutes. Timed tickets are available online, or you can take your chances and buy onsite at the mobile ticket office. Join the queue at the time printed on your ticket, not before, as you will not be admitted. The queue is outside, so have a waterproof or umbrella in case of rain. The queue moves fairly quickly. There is a bag search before you enter the building. When you do enter the building, take advantage of the cloakroom which is opposite the entrance.
You are not allowed to take anything other than small bags in with you. I highly recommend you also check your coats, as it gets incredibly hot inside with so many people there, and most people ended up carrying them, which then got in everyone's way. Once you enter, the queue takes you past a photographer who takes photos of your group against a green screen. You will be given a receipt, and just before you leave the exhibition, you can view your photos, but there is no obligation to buy.
I chose to go without one, and as there were plenty of interpretation boards inside, I did not miss having one. The exhibition starts in a room where you stand to watch a five minute film in the dark. It is very well done, a dramatic introduction to both King Tutankhamun and Howard Carter, the Egyptologist who found his tomb, and explains how both of them have been immortalised by the discovery. Granite Statue of Tutankhamun A life-size image of the young king striding forward reveals a sagging belly and small waist.
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Exhibition hours and prices vary across the days of the week. All times and prices are listed at kingtutmelbourne. We strongly recommend that you pre-purchase your tickets well in advance before visiting the museum, due to the high demand for session tickets.
We cannot guarantee that you can obtain tickets at the Museum for the same day as sessions are selling out in advance. Tickets to the exhibition also entitle you entry to Melbourne Museum between 10am and closing at 5pm on the same day that the exhibition ticket is valid for.
If you have booked an exhibition session after 5pm and also wish to visit the Museum, you will need to arrive with enough time to visit before 5pm, as there is no access to other areas within the Museum after that time. The average visit to the exhibition is minutes. There are ten galleries that visitors may experience in a self-guided manner.
You should exchange your voucher for tickets at any Ticketek outlet in Australia before you visit the Museum. Gift vouchers cannot be exchanged at the Museum. To locate a Ticketek outlet, check here. The closest Ticketek outlet to the Museum is at Exhibition Street. Tickets are for one entry per person only. Used tickets will show as such in our system to prevent re-entry, so visitors should purchase tickets only from official outlets. No photography or video recording of any kind is allowed inside in the exhibition.
However, there is an opportunity to purchase a personalised souvenir photo in the Egyptian Marketplace Shop or the Museum Treasures Shop, at the end of your visit.
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