A journey into the Egyptian underworld at Milan's Royal Palace with the Tutankhamun Real Experience

Palazzo Reale in Milan is hosting from March 5 to June 14, 2020 Journey Beyond Darkness. Tutankhamun Real Experience, the part-immersive experience that aims to recount the journey beyond darkness of the most famous pharaoh and illustrate theancient Egyptians’ conception of theafterlife.

In fact, the event will be partly immersive, with large projections accompanied by music and a narrative journey based on a solid Egyptological framework that is advised by a prestigious scientific committee, and partly exhibition-based, with the presence of a selection of precious original objects, including the statue of the god Amun with somatic features of the young Tutankhamen.

Visitors will have an opportunity to learn about a subject that appears to them to be already familiar, but which in fact shows extraordinary complexity, as Western thought is indebted to it.

After an introductory video, the archaeological section will be presented, with works selected by Francesco Tiradritti and set up according to a project by FC Confalonieri, which describes the otherworldly beliefs of the Egyptians through the objects considered necessary for otherworldly survival, conceived as a continuation of the earthly one. Most of the exhibits on display come from Milan’s Civic Collections and the National Archaeological Museum in Florence. Also brought together for the first time will be the Busca tro usseau, which includes the mummy and sarcophagus, preserved in the Civic Collections, and a seven-meter-long papyrus dating back to the 19th-20th dynasty, recovered shortly before 1850 by Marquis Carlo Busca during his excavations and preserved in the Archives of the Ospedale Maggiore in Milan. As mentioned, significant among the finds is the statue of the god Amun, on loan from the Fritz Beherens Foundation and the August Kestner Museum in Hanover. Also, the two heads of funerary figurines attributable to the figure of ruler Akhenaten, father of Tutankhamun, a rare fragment of a relief from the mastaba of Seshemnefer (VI) Heba (VI Dynasty, reign of Djedkara Isesi; 2388 - 2356 B.C.), in Saqqara.

The multimedia section will be divided into two rooms: in the first, visitors will be able to retrace the most significant features of Egyptian civilization. He will be guided by Howard Carter to the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb and his grave goods; in the second, Tutankhamun himself will lead the visitor on the journey through the underworld to conquer immortality.

Journey Beyond Darkness. Tutankhamon Real Experience is promoted by the City of Milan|Culture, Palazzo Reale, Civita Exhibitions and Museums and Laboratoriorosso, and is connected to the exhibition at the Civic Archaeological Museum of Milan from March 11 to December 20, 2020, entitled Under the Sky of Nut. Divine Egypt, which aims to illustrate the meaning of divine images and the relationship between man and the divine, in daily life and in the Afterlife of the ancient Nilotic civilization.

For info: palazzorealemilano.it

Image: The so-called “Hannover Amun,” detail, New Kingdom late 18th dynasty (c. 1325 BCE; hardened limestone, 85 x 25 x 49.3 cm; Fritz Behrens Stiftung, on permanent loan to Museum August Kestner, Hannover)

A journey into the Egyptian underworld at Milan's Royal Palace with the Tutankhamun Real Experience

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