Where's Tut?

So we're in Philadelphia this weekend, heading back to NYC later today. We saw the King Tut exhibition yesterday, which is pretty amazing but flawed. I have my own quibbles, but the big one you can find in Wikipedia's King Tut entry:

Some attendees of the current exhibition have been disappointed in the show, and have accused the exhibitors of using false or misleading advertising regarding its contents. The exhibition is marketed around Tutankhamun, but more than half of the artifacts are from the reigns of Tutankhamun's immediate predecessors in the 18th dynasty. Also, the advertising for the exhibition centers on an image in gold of the face of Tutankhamun, strongly reminiscent of his famous death mask, which is not among the exhibits. In reality the image is a close-up photograph of a 40 cm (16") canopic vessel that held the king's liver. The item is labeled in most of the advertising as a "canopic coffinette" or "miniature coffin", but viewers have complained about feeling misled.

Indeed, we emerged in the gift shop, worried that we'd missed a main room of the show. But no.

More thoughts on Philly later.

Labels: museums, Philadephia

- posted by Amy @ 3/25/2007 10:07:00 AM