Posters

Last week I went to the Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibit in Dallas with my son and a good friend.  I enjoyed the exhibit and bought a poster at the end.  I have three other posters that I bought at other Egyptian exhibits.  I've waited about a year and a half to hang the posters.  I already had three posters, but couldn't decide exactly how to hang them.  Last year when I heard that the King Tut exhibit was coming to Dallas, I decided to wait because I wanted to go and then get a poster.  So after all that waiting, yesterday I hung the four posters up in our bedroom. 

Below is a photo of the four posters.  One the left is a poster from Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and His World.  I went to that exhibit in 1992 at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth.  The top poster in the middle is from another exhibit that I went to at the Kimbell in 1999 called Gifts of the Nile ~ Ancient Egyptian Faience.  The bottom middle is my oldest poster.  I bought it at the Tutanchamun exhibit in Cologne, West Germany, in 1980!  The one on the right is the poster that I bought last week.

So I've been to two King Tut exhibits, 29 years apart.  I liked both.

By the way, the rest of the day was great.  We found a parking space (under the shade of a tree) just two blocks from the museum, there was no line at the will-call window to pick up our tickets, it wasn't crowded in the exhibit until the very last when a group of school kids came in, we picked up my daughter for lunch at a Greek restaurant, and we made it home before the rush-hour traffic.  Who could ask for anything more?!