English Section

Tutankhamun exhibition comes to Warsaw

26.10.2022 16:00
"Tutankhamun: His Tomb and His Treasures," a traveling exhibition that offers an insight into life in ancient Egypt and that has already been seen by almost 7 million people worldwide, opened in Warsaw on Wednesday.
Audio
Egyptologist Wolfgang Wettengel (center) during the opening of the exhibition at the Nowa Praga Museum in Warsaw.
Egyptologist Wolfgang Wettengel (center) during the opening of the exhibition at the Nowa Praga Museum in Warsaw.Photo: Danuta Isler/Radio Poland

Put together by Semmel Exhibitions, a German event producer, the show is said to be the world's most comprehensive exhibition about the young Egyptian king Tutankhamun.

After a world tour and stops in places such as New York, Berlin and Brussels, the exhibition is now available to Polish audiences at the New Praga Museum in Warsaw, where visitors can see more than 1,000 items exhibited on 3,000 square meters of space.

"You see highlights of the treasure, objects you have never seen in the exhibition about Tutankhamun before, like the golden shrines, three of the coffins, the golden throne or his death masks, which do not travel because of conservation reasons now," Dr. Wolfgang Wettengel, an Egyptologist who is the scientific consultant for the exhibition, told Danuta Isler at its launch.

Click on the audio player above to listen.