Mummies: Secrets Of The Tomb

November 19-March 11, 2012

Free for VMFA members, children 6 and under, and active-duty military personnel and their immediate families.

$15 for adults

$12 for seniors 65+, students with ID,  and youth ages 7–17

Drawing on a selection of ancient Egyptian antiquities from the British Museum’s internationally famous collection, this blockbuster exhibition explores the life, mummification and afterlife of the Egyptian priest Nesperennub. With more than 100 objects, including human and animal mummies, a gilded mask, jewelry, canopic chests, monumental stone sarcophagi, statuary and tomb lintels, the exhibition immerses the visitor in the life and death of Nesperennub, a temple priest. An accompanying 3-D film presentation uses the most advanced scanning technology to take the spectator on a journey that unwraps the mummy of Nesperennub in vivid detail and reveals the secrets of life and death in ancient Egypt.