Trivia: Museum station makeover

Eye Weekly (By Marc Weisblott)

Who is paying for the Museum station makeover and what are those hieroglyphs embedded in the lettering supposed to say, anyway?

Coming soon to the Museum subway station is some TTC signage like no other.

“I was loved by my father, honoured and praised by my mother. I gave them a proper burial — by royal decree because I was honoured by the king — so that they could praise the god forever. I was a good son from my childhood until their demise, never causing them anger. Moreover, my opinion was considered in every royal project.”

So reads the inscription that will be contained with the letters on the track walls, once they are unwrapped, taken from a limestone relief from the tomb of an ancient Egyptian nobleman by the name of Met-jet-jy, dating to around 2300 BC and housed in a gallery at the Royal Ontario Museum.