While Maren was visiting in March, we decided to go to the King Tut Exhibit at the De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park. It had opened in June of 2009 and I had been wanting to check it out ever since I'd started seeing the advertisements all over the city. It was set to close on March 28th so having Maren come to stay with us was the perfect excuse to see the exhibit before it left.
Now from the advertisements above, one would obviously think that they were going to be able to see the actual tomb of King Tut. Sadly, there was only a projection of the sarcophagus and not the actual artifact. We had spent over an hour exploring the exhibit, which in it's one right was beautifully designed, but we of course were looking most forward to the final exhibit room. Not to mention that since it was the last week it was going to be open, it was PACKED. At one point Maren brushed up against a mother openly breast feeding her child while gazing at one of the artifacts (fully exposing both breasts in the process!) Oh the joys of living in such a liberal city! Overall we were kind of disappointed. Yes the exhibit was beautiful and the artifacts were incredible to learn about, but after the advertising, we totally thought we were going to see the famous tomb...since that's what it said we were going to see!!
Oh well...maybe this will just inspire me to go back to Egypt.
King Tut…what a cool exhibit.
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neat. I would like to see that exhibit one day.
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