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The Tutankhamun Exhibition in Dorchester, Dorset, England, is a permanent exhibition set up in 1986 by Michael Ridley as a re-creation of the tomb of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun. The exhibition does not display any of the actual treasures of Tutankhamun, but all artifacts are recreated to be exact facsimiles of the actual items.
A likeness of Egyptian King Tutankhamun (1340 BC). Archive Photos - Getty Images Lord Carnarvon suffered a mosquito bite while in Egypt, and one day during shaving, he accidentally cut the bite ...
By the 1970s, the museum was again expanding. More services for the public were introduced; visitor numbers soared, with the temporary exhibition "Treasures of Tutankhamun" in 1972, attracting 1,694,117 visitors, the most successful in British history. In the same year the Act of Parliament establishing the British Library was passed ...
In 1972 he worked with Eiddon Edwards on the "Treasures of Tutankhamun" exhibition at the British Museum, which remains the most popular museum exhibition ever staged in Britain. In 1974 he replaced Edwards as Keeper of Ancient Egypt and ran the department successfully until 1988, redeveloping the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery to acclaim in 1981.
While interest had waned by the mid-1930s, [72] from the early 1970s touring exhibitions of the tomb's artefacts led to a sustained rise in popularity. This has been reflected in TV dramas, films and books, with Carter's quest and discovery of the tomb portrayed with varying levels of accuracy.
The Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibition, which travelled for nearly a decade through North America and Europe, was an important cultural event. Hoving wrote about his 1960s acquisition for the Met of the controversial Cloisters Cross in a book called King of the Confessors.
The Golden Child is a 1977 mystery novel [2] by the British author Penelope Fitzgerald, her first published work of fiction.Written while her husband was terminally ill, and partly for his benefit, the novel offers a satirical version of the 1972 Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibition at the British Museum, and pokes fun at museum politics, academics, and Cold War spying.
The museum is at Malet Place, near Gower Street and the University College London science library. Admission is free. [13] The museum has an exhibitions and events programme for adults and families. [14] There is a Friends of the Petrie Museum charity that supports the museum. [15]