Guided visit
Walking mummies, flesh-eating scarabs, and the Pharaoh's curse—Egypt captivates the imagination, but how much of it is true? In this tour, students will explore the museum collection—from the Old Kingdom to the New Kingdom, from Memphis to Thebes—comparing theory with reality. Tomb paintings, reliefs, and everyday objects illustrate the lives of farmers in the fields and the flora and fauna along the Nile. Statues of gods and pharaohs immortalized in stone tell stories of cities, temples, palaces, and how power was organised. Unravel the secrets of mummies and coffins, burial offerings, and...
Walking mummies, flesh-eating scarabs, and the Pharaoh's curse—Egypt captivates the imagination, but how much of it is true? In this tour, students will explore the museum collection—from the Old Kingdom to the New Kingdom, from Memphis to Thebes—comparing theory with reality. Tomb paintings, reliefs, and everyday objects illustrate the lives of farmers in the fields and the flora and fauna along the Nile. Statues of gods and pharaohs immortalized in stone tell stories of cities, temples, palaces, and how power was organised. Unravel the secrets of mummies and coffins, burial offerings, and the belief in an afterlife. Object by object, this ancient civilization—a centralized agricultural state with codified laws and a bureaucratic system that recorded everything—comes to life once more.
Fact or fiction: Can knowledge of certain hieroglyphs trigger disasters? Fiction! Are these objects all real? Fact!
focus Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt Prefer to start at the beginning? Then opt for a combination of stream cultures Egypt and Mesopotamia. Mention this preference on the request form
Would you like to go further and get your students' creative muscles working? Follow up with an ATELIER+!