探尋永生之謎(Quest for Immortality)——古埃及文明特展
2012年9月27日 至 2013年1月8日
浦東正大廣場9樓正大藝術中心,陸家嘴西路168號
璀璨不朽的金字塔,屹立不倒的獅身人面像,神秘的木乃伊傳說,古埃及文明至今仍有許多人類科技無法解開的謎。數千年來,在人類已知的歷史上,這個最古老的國度留給人類豐富又多元的歷史遺產。
探尋永生之謎(Quest for Immortality)——古埃及文明特展將於2012年夏天引爆上海,,屆時男女老幼都可在館內近距離觀看3000多年前壯觀神秘的埃及法老墓,並以輕鬆易懂的方式,深入了解埃及文化。
古埃及文明特展所有的展品都將來自於英國博爾頓博物館(Bolton Museum),這座博物館擁有英國最完整的古埃及文明遺物,包括具有12000多年歷史的1萬多件藏品。本次展覽將展示268件展品,涵蓋了埃及早王朝、中王朝和新王朝時期,包括皇家木乃伊——法老拉美西斯二世(Ramesses II)之子木乃伊、小女孩木乃伊和多具動物木乃伊等,其中「不綁繃帶木乃伊」是當今最為完整的木乃伊之一。絕大部分展品是從未離開過英國博爾頓博物館的鎮館之寶。
屆時,博物館還將展出1:1尺寸複製、重建的圖特摩斯三世(Thutmose III)墓室。圖特摩斯三世一生中大約共有十七次的遠徵,使得埃及一躍成為威震西亞世界的超級強國,因此史學家稱他為「古埃及的拿破崙」。據悉,目前位於埃及帝王谷的圖特摩斯三世墓室已無法進入。若想目睹墓室原貌,唯有至古埃及文明特展一探究竟。
The Quest for Immortality – Exhibition of Egyptian Culture
When: 27 September 2012 to 8 January 2013
Venue: 9/F, Super Brand Mall, No.168 West Lujiazui Road
Bolton Museum has one of the largest collections of Egyptian cultural relics in the UK, and in this exhibition, 268 artifacts will be displayed including a royal mummy - the son of Ramesses II – together with a mummified infant and animals. The exhibition also features a life-sized reproduction of the burial chamber of Thutmose III, the sixth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty.
Bolton Museum, established in the late nineteenth century, has probably the most important Egyptian collection in a British local authority museum. Numbering around 10,000 objects, the collection is able to display an overview of 5,000 years of Egyptian culture and its continuing legacy in Egypt and Britain in a way few other museums can. One of the reasons that Bolton has such a diverse Egyptology collection is because of the historic links to Egypt through the cotton trade. The current collection houses many objects ranging from jewelry and everyday items right up to mummies and granite columns from ancient temples.
(來源:英國使館文化教育處,編輯 Helen)