A few weeks ago we had the opportunity to go see Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs exhibit at the Indy Children’s Museum. It was amazing to behold so many items from so long ago. We saw gold sandals, a bed, canopic jars carved to look like the king, Egyptian jewelry, and so much more!
The exhibit was not limited to Tut’s treasures; we also set our eyes on rooms full of artifacts from Ancient Egypt including statues, a carved coffin, and a small sphinx. We weren’t allowed to take pictures, so if you want to see…you need to go! The exhibit will be open in Indy for one more month before moving on to Toronto, Denver, and San Fransisco.
The children’s museum had a modern Egypt exhibit, too. I took plenty of pictures of that one!
Riding in an "airplane" to get to Egypt!
Fancy new wheels to get around the town.
We have reached our destination. 🙂
Getting dressed for the occasion.
Learning to write…
Looking through a picture book from Egypt…
To market, to market… (learning how to bargain)
Learning to speak some of the language…
Dinner time!
Working the coffee shop…
Making a bracelet…
Where are Simon and Jason? Well, after almost 2 hours in the actual Tut exhibit, Simon decided – "I don’t like Egypt!" He spent the rest of his museum time in a place he does like- – the preschool area.
We just wrapped up an Egypt study, that would have been so much fun to visit an exhibit. Instead we visited Nana and listened to her stories of Egypt (visit) and talked about Grandpa breaking his leg there and saw trinkets they’d brought back lol
Awww…we’re studying Egypt now so this would be great!!!
Jolanthe
It’s good that the exhibition showed modern Egyptian culture, though modern and ancient Egypt are completely disconnected: today’s Arab Egyptians bear absolutely no resemblance to their ancient counterparts, who were Nubian, Mediterranean, Bedouin and other tribal races. Still, it’s good to learn something about an Arab nation in the west.
It’s good that the exhibition showed modern Egyptian culture, though modern and ancient Egypt are completely disconnected: today’s Arab Egyptians bear absolutely no resemblance to their ancient counterparts, who were Nubian, Mediterranean, Bedouin and other tribal races. Still, it’s good to learn something about an Arab nation in the west.