de Young Museum
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr
415.750.3600
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Inlaid Pectoral Spelling out the Name of the King, Courtesy of the de Young Museum, San Francisco
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June 27, 2009 – Mar 28, 2010
Daily (9am–9pm)
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- Price
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$27.50
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Note:
Be advised that extended hours for this exhibition only apply through September 30.
"Wonderful things." So said Howard Carter when the archaeologist was asked what he saw upon peeking into the just-opened tomb of boy-king Tutankhamun. Almost a century later and many world tours over, King Tut's wonderful things — enough beautifully crafted, jewel-encrusted, and gilded loot to last a dynastic ruler through the afterlife and beyond —still hold their allure. Perhaps, in these tough economic times, nothing seems simultaneously more fantastically alien, or more apropos a reminder of our last gilded age, than the glittering horde on display at the de Young. Get ready to gawk and awe.
