Tickets go on sale for King Tut exhibit

Associated Press This photo, supplied by the Dallas Museum of Art, shows Demetria Henderson, left, 12, from Richardson, Texas and Angelica Partyka, 12, from Colleyville, Texas, displaying the tickets they were given to the “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs “ exhibit as tickets went on sale at the Dallas Museum of Art Tuesday in Dallas. The exhibit, currently in London, will open at the Dallas Museum of Art on Oct. 3. It will run there through May 17, 2009, and then travel to two yet-to-be-named cities.

DALLAS—Tickets for the King Tut exhibit opening this fall at the Dallas Museum of Art went on sale Tuesday.

The exhibit, “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs,” is making an encore visit to the United States after a two-year tour that drew nearly 4 million visitors ended in September 2007.

The exhibit, currently in London, will open at the Dallas Museum of Art on Oct. 3.

It will run there through May 17, 2009, and then travel to two yet-to-be-named cities.

There will be more than 130 artifacts from the tomb of Egypt’s King Tut, including some artifacts that are new to the exhibit and have not been seen before outside of Egypt, the Dallas Museum of Art said in a news release.

In Dallas, a photography exhibit of prints from Harry Burton, the photographer who accompanied Howard Carter on the King Tut expedition, will be on display as well.

For adults, tickets range from $27.50 on weekdays to $32.50 Friday through Sunday and on holidays.

For children ages 6 through 17, tickets are $16.50. Children 5 and under may attend for free.

For information about tickets and pricing, call 1-877-TUT-TKTS or visit

www.ticketmaster.com or www.dallasmuseumofart.org/tut.

January, 2009