Ancient Egypt, an amazing civilization in northern Africa that spanned nearly 3000 years and still fascinates us today.
Its leaders were called “Pharaohs”. This is their story. Now, step into the world of Tutankhamun, the Golden King and the Great Pharaohs.
Zach Rutledge: Hi everybody! Welcome to this episode of Doing Indy. I’m your host Zach Rutledge and I’m at the world’s largest children’s museum because they’re playing host to the King Tut exhibit, which features artifacts from one of the greatest archeological finds of all time.
Jeffrey H. Patchen: Really, it’s an incredible honor to host this exhibit. It’s a thank you from Mrs. Susan Mubarak, the first lady of Egypt and Dr. Zahi Hawass, the chair of the Supreme Council of Antiquities and National Geographic for some work we’ve been doing with Mrs. Mubarak and helping to design her new Children’s Museum.
Some of our visitors are wondering if this is just an adult exhibit which is truly a family exhibit and there is much for adults as for children. And we’re balancing this with take me there Egypt, which of course has the total family emergent component.
Interestingly, we’re getting grandparents here who are bringing their grandchildren who saw the very first Tut in 1977 at the Field Museum in Chicago and stood in line for hours and remember all that it took to see the exhibit there and bringing their grandchildren to see King Tut here at the Children’s Museum. So it’s pretty exciting.
One of the interesting things about this exhibit in particular is that it puts 30 dynasties of pharaohnic rule into context, as well as setting the context in Africa, which is another interesting aspect of this. But of course, more than a hundred objects from Tut’s tomb and from the tombs of the pharaohs which is very, very exciting.
This is definitely once in a lifetime opportunity for visitors in central Indiana and throughout the Midwest. It’s the only time that this exhibit will be here and it’s the only time it will be in a Children’s Museum throughout its entire run. And of course, there’s the rest of the Children’s Museum the other 450,000 square feet where there’s everything from the world’s largest glass exhibition by Dale Chihuly to dinosphere and everything in between.
Zach Rutledge: Well, as you can see the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis totally immerses you in any exhibit they have. That’s all we have time for in this episode of Doing Indy, I’m your host Zach Rutledge, we’ll see you next time. Oh I am totally buying this!
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