Ancient Egyptian Exhibition Opens in Hunan Museum

More than 230 antiquities from the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy, arrived at Hunan Museum on September 23. They will be displayed in the "Pharaohs, Gods and Mummies" Egyptian Antiquities Exhibition from September 28 to December 5. 

"This is Hunan Museum's first large overseas antiquity exhibition," said Hunan Museum curator Yuan Jianping. "The exhibition has three parts, exhibiting more than 230 Egyptian antiquities. It is co-organized by the Hunan, Shanxi, Liaoning, and Guangdong Museums."　 

Museo Egizio curator Paolo Marini described the two mummies of ancient Egyptian nobles as the best known of the antiques. "Hunan Museum has kept close ties with Museo Egizio. Changsha is an ancient city with a long history of more than 3,000 years. It is a good place to find an exhibition of for ancient Egyptian," he said. 

Museo Egizio is an archaeological museum in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, specializing in Egyptian archaeology and anthropology. It houses one of the largest collections of Egyptian antiquities, with more than 30,000 artifacts. 

More about the exhibition: 

The exhibition include 238 ancient Egyptian antiquities from Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy. They portray the society, religion, arts, and traditions of ancient Egypt from the pre-dynastic period (4500 BC-3100 BC) to the Roman period (30 BC-641 AD). They include pottery, makeup tools, bronze and stone figures, animal and human mummies, wood coffins, stone coffins, stone tablets, amulets, the Book of the Dead (an ancient Egyptian funerary text), and wall paintings.

The exhibition has three chapters: 

Chapter One: The Song of The Nile 

Chapter Two: The Gods of Ancient Egypt 

Chapter Three: The Legend of Eternity

Tickets: 30 yuan/adult; 15 yuan for students, military officers, and minimum living guarantee households; Free for those 65 and older, the disabled, and the children shorter than 1.3 meters. 

Hours: From Tuesday to Sunday, 9:00—17:00 (last entry at 16:00) 

Closed on Mondays (except statutory holidays) and on Chinese Lunar New Year's Eve.