By Erin Dodd
I went to see King Tut in Philadelphia last weekend. The traveling show is making its last U.S. stop at the Franklin Institute. Admission was $32.50 + Ticketmaster fees. And it wasn’t that good. There were some interesting artifacts, but nearby permanent collections (the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Archaeological Museum to name a few) have much more impressive artifacts. This show was a lot of lights and drapery and hype.
The show takes you through the contents of a generic Egyptian tomb and shows some artifacts from King Tut’s tomb. These are different artifacts from the ones that traveled in the 1979 show.
In so far as a blockbuster is an event that gets people to go out, it is successful, but in so far as showing us something new, I’m not so impressed. And $32.50!
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