The boy king has been encamped at the Dallas Museum of Art since October, but for his last hurrah, the DMA is keeping the show open Friday until midnight and staying open continuously to offer "34 Hours of Tut" from Saturday at 9 a.m. until Sunday at 7 p.m., when Tut finally checks out. Half-price tickets will be available in the wee hours Sunday morning.
The DMA has drawn over 600,000 people to the exhibition of more than 130 rare Egyptian artifacts. The museum was hoping to attract at least 1 million, but then this wicked monster called a dreadful economy slipped in under Tut's nose.
Even so, the DMA is choosing to have fun with it all during its "Mummy Marathon," which includes a special Late Nights event tonight from 6 until midnight.
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Saw it here twice by taking lots of people. It's not the same as seeing it in the Cairo Museum, but for me the real fun was watching people who are not Egyptomaniacs like me show amazement and ooh and ahh over the exquisite talent of Egyptian artisans.
I had the same experience here in London. It was terrific to see the awe on people's faces and it was fun to translate the hieroglyph on some of the more famous objects and watch the astonishment that these beautiful things actually did a very real job.
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