The Museum of Idaho (MOI) has introduced its next exhibit as “Mummies of the World: The Exhibition,” slated to open May 31 with a ribbon cutting.
The exhibit will be a part of the special traveling exhibit program at the MOI that’s been alive since 2003 and will be active through Jan. 4, 2026. It’s produced by World Heritage Exhibitions under Neon Global and is the most expensive traveling exhibit the MOI has brought in over a decade.
According to a statement on Tuesday, it’s one of the largest assembled mummy and artifact collections ever. Ancient mummies from South America, Europe, Egypt and the United States − from 4,500 years old to relatively recent − are included in the exhibit.
“Every exhibit we take in, we bring in because we think it will be interesting and important to the east Idaho community,” MOI Executive Director Jeff Carr said in the statement.
Carr has been a part of the MOI for eight years. He has served as executive director since preceding 2023 and is particularly eager to bring this exhibit to east Idaho.
A mummy family from Hungary, a German nobleman, Egyptian animal mummies and more will be included. The exhibit originally debuted in 2010 in Los Angele
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Above and Beyond
Jun 2024 – Jan 2025
Under the Canopy: Animals of the Rainforest
Oct 2023 – May 2024
Dinos of the Deep
Feb – Sep 2023
Toytopia
Oct 2022 – Jan 2023
Genghis Khan: Conquest and Culture
Jan – Sep 2022
Body Worlds: Animal Inside Out
Jan – Dec 2021
Darwin & Dinosaurs
Sep 2019 – Jan 2021
Archimedes: Science & Innovations
Jan – Sep 2019
Discover Steampunk
May 2018 – Jan 2019
Dinosaurs in Motion: Where Art & Science Meet
Jan – Apr 2018
Space: A Journey to Our Future
Jun – Nov 2017
Rome: Military Genius and Mighty Machines
Jan – May 2017
America’s Revolution: Rebels with a Cause
Jun – Nov 2016
Hatching the Past
Jan – May 2016
Real Pirates
May – Nov 2015
CSI: Crime Scene Insects
Jan – Apr 2015
Glow: Living Lights
Sep – Nov 2014
Race to the End of the Earth
Feb – Sep 2014
Guitar: The Instrument that Rocked the World
Jun – Nov 2013
Carousels: Art and History in Motion
Jan – May 2013
King Tut: Treasures of t
We love the Leonardo in Salt Lake and have enjoyed a lot of different exhibits there. So when we got the chance to go see the Mummies of the World exhibit last week we were really eager. The boys don’t know too much about mummies other than what they’ve heard on Halloween and from the Magic Trunk House book we’ve read, so we knew that they’d comprehend plenty. We had no concept we’d learn as much as we did.
First of all, we just assumed that this would just be an Egyptian thing, and that there would be three or four 3,000 year old mummies with their sarcophagi. That would have been chilly enough, but this exhibit has much more. We learned that there are many naturally mummified bodies from all around the world. I won’t spoil it for you by telling you everything, but bodies can mummify in salt, bogs, ultra-dry conditions, and in other ways, too.
In the first room, you’ll join a mummy that formed organic in the cool of a vault in a catacomb in Europe about 500 years ago. We learned this from the description that gives you details like where, when, how formed, and other interesting bits of history on the side of the glass case. Thi
This section includes born-digital exhibitions.
Aura: Art and Authenticity
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University Palo Alto
For more information: https://museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions/aura-art-and-authenticity
Complete Museum Tour 360
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum San Jose
For more information: https://egyptianmuseum.org/360-museum-tour
Fly Over Zone: Virtual Museum
Opened 21 June 2022
This website includes virtual tours of ancient sites and a virtual museum of Greek and Roman sculpture.
For more information: https://www.flyoverzone.com/
Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Ann Arbor
Catalogue: Emberling, Geoff and Suzanne Davis (eds). Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile and Beyond. Kelsey Museum Publications 16. Pp. xviii + 193. Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 2021. $39.00. ISBN: 978–0–9906623–9–6 (paper and freely downloadable).
For more information: https://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/graffiti-el-kurru/
Heroes & Hoplites
The Hellenic Museum Melbourne
For more information: https://www.hellenic.org.au/exhibitions/heroes-and-hoplites
Musée national de Préhistoire: VISITE VIRTUELLE (National Museum of
Mummies of the World Touring Exhibition to Premiere in California, Tickets On Sale
Tickets went on sale at the weekend for the premiere of Mummies of the World the largest single collection of mummies ever brought together in one exhibition, and the very first exhibition of its kind to be staged in the United States. Opening on July 1, itll take place at the California Science Centre in Los Angeles, and manage for a limited time, before moving on to tour an as yet undisclosed string of museums around the US for up to three years.
Organised by American Exhibitions Inc. (AEI), in association with Reiss-Engelhorn Museums (REM) of Mannheim Germany, the exhibition will display with reverence and dignity mummified cadavers plus connected and complimentary artefacts not just from ancient Egypt, but from four continents Asia, Oceania, South America and Europe. Itll cover ages spanning several thousands of years. The oldest mummy featured will date from 6,500 years ago, the most recent the 18th century.
As our Top 10 Modern Mummies list highlights, mummification has been performed, in many different ways and for many different reasons, throughout history right up until the present morning.
