This is a rather different approach to encouraging parents to whisk their children to potentially educational exhibitions.
Fuel prices shouldn’t stop Tarrant County students from seeing the pharaoh in Dallas.
So organizers of the exhibit "King Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of Pharaohs" are offering Tarrant County-area schools a $100 gas card to help offset the cost of field trips to the Dallas Museum of Art. The exhibit opens Oct. 3.
"We’re seeing many schools cut back on field trips due to the rising cost of gas," said Bryan Harris, a vice president of Arts and Exhibition International, who organized the show. "We want to make sure teachers have this rare opportunity to see this with their students."
The show’s main sponsor, Northern Trust, has set aside $200,000. The offer is also open to any school that must make a round trip of at least 100 miles. A similar offer is available to groups of 40 or more.
See the above page for more, including a great photograph of a group of kids all wearing Tutankhamun nemes headgear.
2 comments:
As a Dallasite, I think it's great that the kids are being accommodated. I'm also elated that so many kids are really interested in Egypt. Today, Tut. Tomorrow, an Egyptologist perhaps?
I'm just lucky I work a block away from the museum and am a member. That means I can go endless times, though having seen the exhibit in situ in the Cairo Museum, I'm curious to see how it will be set up.
Yes I agree - great news that Dallas is actually taking such steps to ensure that children are going to be involved. I know that when the Golden Age was in London there were 100s of school visits organized.
Do let me know what you think of the Dallas set-up. I loved the London exhibition, but there was a lot of mixed reaction to it. I took the ex to see it. He knows about as much about Egyptology as an oyster, but has a great eye for detail, and although he loved the individual items he was dissapointed that there weren't any of the larger items (chariots, beds etc), and he couldn't assemble all the items in his head as a set of grave goods in a single tomb. Other people just hated the music and some of the exhibition paraphanalia - like the columns.
I ended up going three times in total and got something different out of the experience each time.
I'd love to post a review if you feel like writing one!
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