We have many exciting programs coming up at the museum and planetarium.
Vibrations by Maria Butina opens March 21, 2010
Author event and book signing with Brian Patrick Duggan, M.A.
New Junior Archaeologist program
Star show explores the Mithraic Mysteries
This exhibit is a continuation of Maria Butina's prior exhibit, entitled Vibrations (2007). She invites you through her artwork to take a journey where one can embark upon a visual Experience of the Source-the Divine in Self. Maria Butina has exhibited internationally, including Prague, Split, San Jose and Anaheim. She lives and works in Mountain View, California.
Brian Patrick Duggan, M.A., the author of the award winning Saluki: The Desert Hound and the English Travelers Who Brought It to the West, will talk about how Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun's intact tomb had an astonishing and unprecedented effect on Western popular culture. In perhaps the first multi-media frenzy of the 20th century, "Tutmania" gave new status to Egyptology – and inadvertently led to breed recognition of the Saluki, the elite hunting hound of ancient Egypt and contemporary Bedouin tribesmen.
Date: Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 12 pm.
Location: Lecture Gallery
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A sleepover graduation event for our Spring 2010 Junior Archaeologist Program Graduates!
Saturday, June 19, 2010
- Activities will include:
- Special tour of our underground tomb
- Games and activities
- Movies, Movies, Movies
- Graduation ceremony
…and more!
Want to participate? Email programs@egyptianmuseum.org
Calling all adventurers! The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum has introduced its new Junior Archaeologist training program for young adventurers ages 5 to 17. This program includes behind the scenes training, hands-on learning opportunities, and the most fun graduation ceremony this side of the Nile!
Once the training is completed, the new Junior Archaeologist qualifies to lead a museum tomb tour for family members and friends, with his or her name posted in the Museum Welcome Center while they are on duty. They will also receive an official Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum Junior Archaeologist backpack and certificate.
Museum Director Julie Scott says, “Over the past eight decades we have hosted hundreds of thousands of young people at our museum. Our hope is to inspire as many of them as possible to learn more about people from other cultures and other periods in history. Best of all, we think we have also managed to make this hands-on training program engaging and fun!”
The Junior Archaeologist program is free with any Friend of the Museum Family Membership (how do I become a member?), which also includes complimentary admission to the museum for up to 4 people, priority entrance to featured exhibitions, discounts in the museum store, and volunteer opportunities as a member of museum committees. Scholarships are available for sincere applicants who may need financial assistance.
For more information, email expeditions@egyptianmuseum.org
Of the many riddles left to us by antiquity, none is more intriguing than that of the ancient Roman religion known as the Mithraic mysteries. The teachings of this ancient Roman "mystery religion" of Mithraism were guarded with the utmost secrecy, revealed only to select initiates. While the Mithraists never wrote down their secret doctrines, they did leave a key to them in the arcane iconography, which filled the walls of their underground temples. Until now, all attempts to decipher this iconography have proven fruitless. Most experts have been content with a vague hypothesis that these images somehow derived from ancient Iranian religion.
In a groundbreaking work, Dr. David Ulansey has recently offered a radically different theory. He argues that Mithraic iconography was actually an astronomical code, and that the cult began as a religious response to a startling scientific discovery. We present his theory of the mysteries concealed in Mithraic temple carvings that could reveal the central secret of the cult: a secret consisting of an ancient vision of the ultimate nature of the universe.
Planetarium shows are being presented Monday through Sunday at 2 pm with additional shows on Saturday and Sunday at 3:30 pm. Admission is complimentary. Tickets may be picked up at the admissions desk of the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum. Show running time: 35 minutes
This program is free with museum admission.
