The exhibition of "Ramses and the Gold of the Pharaohs" has achieved a hit in its fourth stop at the Australia Museum in Sydney, where all tickets for November were sold out.
About 110,000 tickets have been sold so far.
The exhibition was officially opened on November 16th and witnessed a large public turnout from the first hours of its opening to the public on November 18th.
The official opening of the exhibition was witnessed by Dr. Mostafa Waziri, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, a delegation from the Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities, John Graham, Minister of Arts, Music, Tourism and Business of Australia, Dr. Kim McKay, Director of the Australia Museum, Ambassador Mohamed Khairy, Consul- General of Egypt in Sydney, Australia, and more than 500 invited senior public and government figures, members of the Museum’s Board of Trustees, a number of archaeologists, tourism specialists in Australia, along with Dean of the Egyptian community in Australia, in addition to a number of influencers, bloggers, and famous men. Art and music in Australia.
The exhibition includes 182 artifacts from the collections of the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, Cairo, from the era of King Ramesses II, and the king’s coffin, which was transported in a majestic parade with the royal mummies from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization.
The exhibition also includes some other artifacts from the excavations of the Egyptian mission in the Bubastiyun area in Saqqara, in addition to the holdings of a number of Egyptian museums that highlight some of the distinctive characteristics of ancient Egyptian civilization from the era of the Middle Kingdom until the late era.
The exhibition puts on show a collection of statues, jewelry, cosmetics, paintings, stone blocks decorated with carvings, and some colorful wooden coffins.
“Ramses and the Gold of the Pharaohs” exhibition began its journey outside Egypt with its first stop in November 2021 in Houston, then its second stop in August 2022 in San Francisco, USA, then its third stop in April 2023 in the French capital, Paris, where it attracted 817,000 visitors.
Translated by Ahmed Moamar
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