Posted on 12/03/2004 7:41:03 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Lordy...now I'm gonna have that song in my head for the next zillion years...
Thanks..
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You don't see the surname 'Anschutz' every day. ;^)
That having been said, I would LOVE to see this exhibition!
I was a kid when this came to the US the last time.
I still remember how jealous I was that my aunt and uncle got to see it.
I visited the exhibit in the 70's, well worth every penny.
No way am I gonna pay thirty bucks to get cursed. Also, seems to me that I saw at least SOME of this stuff in the Field Museum, and it wasn't more than 20 years ago.
(Fell in love with the little ~18" tall statue of the goddess Selket...)
It was much cheaper in Cairo and the lines were a lot shorter. :-)
Caught mine in New Orleans. Can understand being cheaper in Cairo, like buying boots in Texas.
Don't be to sure, right now it's west, east north and the reasonable 4th should be the south, come on Houston.
Thirty bucks a ticket? I saw the first exhibit and $30 is a steal for a bigger show. I'd stand in line to pay $50.
The statue is even more charming up close and "in the round" -- and in the subdued, modeled lighting of the display room.
But more like this:
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo has more Tutankhamun stuff in storage than they have on display at any given time. I was there in '84 and that 10 day trip was an unforgetable experience. In addition to visiting Tut's treasures in the museum, we visited Tut in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings. I recommend the touring exhibit to you!
If it comes to Houston the tickets (2) are on me.
I wish I'd had the time to visit the Valley, , at least I was able to ride a camel and enter the Pyramid at Giza.. maybe someday we'll do a Nile cruise and visit the temple cities as well.
Somewhere in the south would have been nice. Of course, they probably thought us Christian hick red-staters wouldn't support it.
Dude, they hooked us up. Ft. Lauderdale in December is quite tolerable. I just hope the lines aren't as bad as they were in New Orleans when I saw the exhibit as a kid.
See... VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs will appear at the following venues:
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 16 to November 15, 2005
Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, December 2005
Chicago Field Museum, May 2006
I'm looking for the 4th..
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