September 15, 2009

King Tut exhibition to open in Times Square in April

The king is coming to NYC. That is, the boy king: King Tut.

“Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” will open in late April at the Discovery Times Square Exposition facility, located in the former New York Times building.

The traveling Tut exhibition, which was recently in Philadelphia, contains more than 50 artifacts from Tut’s tomb along with more than 80 other Egyptian artifacts, organizers said today. (In Philadelphia, it attracted nearly 1.3 million visitors to the Franklin Institute in 2007.)

The Tut exhibition will be open in New York through December 2010.

Individual tickets can be reserved now, but will not go on sale in the fall; group tickets are available now. Tickets will be marked for a specific date and entry time to reduce waits.

Individual tickets will be priced at $29.50 for adults, $26.50 for seniors and $20.50 for children ages 4 through 12, according to one of the group-ticketing outlets, Tickets for Groups.

When the original King Tut exhibition came to New York in 1979, it was on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art . In 2004, officials from the Met said they opted out of this tour because they did not want to add a higher entry fee.

The Discovery Times Square Exposition is located at 226 W. 44th St., map.

Image source: Discovery Times Square.

Earlier:
Discovery Times Square Expo to open with Titanic, Lucy
Traveling King Tut might visit Brooklyn Museum

September 15, 2009 2:54 PM in Kids, Midtown, Museums

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