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Milan, March 4 2020 – The Municipality of Milan|Culture, Palazzo Reale and the Archaeological Museum promote an exhibition project on two locations dedicated to ancient Egypt, and in particular to the theme of the relationship between man and the divine, in daily life and in the vision of beyond. The initiative is divided into two exhibitions: “Journey beyond darkness. Tutankhamun RealExperience®” which opens to the public from tomorrow at Palazzo Reale; and “Under the sky of Nut. Divine Egypt" which will open from March 11th at the Civic Archaeological Museum of Milan.

The exhibition “Journey beyond darkness. Tutankhamun RealExperience®", promoted by Palazzo Reale with Civita Mostre e Musei and Laboratoriorosso, is an engaging and partly immersive experience, to tell the journey "beyond the darkness" of the most famous of the pharaohs and illustrate the ancients' conception of the afterlife Egyptians. 

Open until 14 June 2020, the exhibition presents in the archaeological section 70 precious original objects from the Civic Archaeological Museum of Milan, the National Archaeological Museum of Florence and some private collections. Of particular importance is the recomposition of the so-called Busca Kit, with the mummy, the sarcophagus and the papyrus and the statue of the god Amon, with the somatic features of the young Tutankhamun, granted by the Fritz Beherens Foundation and the August Kestner Museum in Hannover. 

The exhibition itinerary, curated by Sandro Vannini, will be enriched by large immersive projections accompanied by original music and a narrative itinerary based on an Egyptological framework which makes use of the consultancy of a prestigious scientific committee, chaired by Miroslav Barta and composed of Zahi Hawass , Christian E. Loeben, Liam McNamara and Gabriele Pieke. 

Produced and organized by the Civic Archaeological Museum of Milan, “Under the sky of Nut. Divine Egypt" instead investigates the invisible nature of the gods, entering the spiritual and conceptual universe of Egyptian civilization. 

The exhibition itinerary, which will open to the public on 11 March, includes more than 150 works and allows you to enter the world of the divine in Egypt through sculptures in bronze, stone and faience, reliefs, sarcophagi, mummies and elements of the funerary objects that accompanied the deceased in the afterlife. 

The selected finds come from the Egyptian collection of the Civic Archaeological Museum of Milan and from the most important Italian Egyptian collections (Egyptian Museum of Turin, National Archaeological Museum of Florence, Civic Archaeological Museum of Bologna, Civic Museum of Antiquities "J.J.Winckelmann" of Trieste, Museum of archeology at the University of Pavia).

The exhibition “Under the sky of Nut” is scheduled in the rooms of the Archaeological Museum until 20 December 2020.

On the occasion of the exhibitions, Palazzo Reale and the Civic Archaeological Museum have agreed on a reciprocal reduced ticket for all those who visit both exhibitions.

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