The exhibition “Ramses and the Gold of the Pharaohs” is set to visit the German city of Cologne next July, where it will be running from 13th July 2024 till 6th January 2025.
Cologne is the fifth stop for the exhibition which has since 2021 toured Houston, San Francisco, Paris and Sydney where it is currently running till May 2024, following which it moves to Cologne then Tokyo.
A delegation from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, has visited Cologne with the aim of checking the security and display preparations for the exhibition. The delegation included Mostafa Waziri; Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), and Khaled Sherif, the Minister’s assistant for Digital Transformation, and General Supervisor of the General Administration for the Development of Services at Archaeological Sites and Museums. Their task was to inspect the gallery at the Odysseum in Cologne where the exhibition will be hosted.
Dr Waziri said the delegation checked out the final preparations for the exhibition: the gallery, showcases, lighting, guide signs, and security measures.
Dr Sherif explained the entry points were checked, also the surveillance cameras; motion detectors; fire systems, self-extinguishing systems; and the secure storage rooms where the antiquities will be placed once they arrive in Sydney until they are displayed. The exhibition hall, Dr Sherif said, and its building would be monitored round the clock at two control rooms.
It is customary for the Antiquities Ministry to dispatch representatives from the SCA to check the adequacy of preparations for any exhibition of Egyptian antiquities to be held outside Egypt. Such exhibitions, Dr Waziri said, serve as messengers that showcase to the world Egypt’s civilisation and rich heritage.
Dr Waziri explained that Cologne was chosen to host the Ramses exhibition primarily for its advantageous location. Situated centrally among several major cities in Germany and in close proximity to the Netherlands, Belgium, and Switzerland, the German city offers unparalleled accessibility.
The exhibition displays 180 unique, invaluable artefacts from the collections of the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir and other Egyptian museums, also from among discoveries in the Bubastian necropolis in Saqqara. The exhibits highlight the ancient Egyptian civilisation from the Middle Kingdom (2030 – 1650 BC) up to the Late Period (664 – 332BC). They include sarcophagi, statues, gold and silverware, the restored funerary mask of Egyptian Pharaoh Amenemope, exceptional jewellery and furniture from the untouched tombs of the city of Tanis.
On display is also the sarcophagus of Ramses II, famous as Ramses the Great, which was loaned to the exhibition by Egypt’s National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation. Ramses the Great, was among Egypt’s greatest pharaohs. His 67 years of reign in 1279 – 1213BC saw Egypt at its most glorious and powerful. He was famous for being a “Master of Builders” who erected more temples, colossi, and obelisks than any other Egyptian king, also for his stunning, gigantic tomb that includes inscriptions and artefacts magnificent in both quantity and quality.
Watani International
11 March 2024
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