Tutankhamun: a curator's walk
An intimate, slow walk through the Tutankhamun Galleries with a museum curator — not a guide, but one of the people who put the rooms together.
This walk is led, in rotation, by four of the curators responsible for the new Tutankhamun wing. Each tells the story slightly differently — through textiles, through metallurgy, through the chariot, through the gold. You will be told before booking which curator is leading on your chosen date.
Group size is capped at eight so that everyone can stand close to the case and ask the questions you would normally only ask a friend. The walk ends in a small private room with mint tea and the chance to handle a single replica object.
Itinerary, with timings.
- 00:00
Welcome at the curator's desk
Introductions, a short background on the 1922 discovery.
- 00:15
The antechamber
Five objects, slowly. The chariot, the throne, the small painted box.
- 01:00
The burial chamber
Shrines, sarcophagus, and the famous mask in low light.
- 01:40
The private room
Mint tea, questions, a replica object you can hold.
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