Immersive King Tut exhibit tickets available for presale beginning Thursday

Tickets to an immersive exhibit in Boston permitting guests to step contained in the life and dying of King Tut will go on presale Thursday forward of a normal public sale subsequent week.

Marking 100 years for the reason that discovery of King Tut’s tomb, “Past King Tut: The Immersive Expertise” will discover the boy king’s life and entombment in Historical Egypt and rise to fame a century in the past. The exhibit will spend greater than two months in Boston this summer season, the primary cease on a North American tour.

When presale tickets go on sale Thursday, they’ll solely be out there to individuals who have registered for the exhibit’s waitlist. To sign-up, go to the Past King Tut web site.

Tickets will open to most of the people subsequent Thursday.

From July 8 to Sept. 18 this summer season, the SoWa Energy Station in Boston’s South Finish will remodel right into a 360-degree view of Historical Egypt, plunging guests into Tutankhamun’s life there in 14th century BC and masking his rule, dying and mummification at a younger age, and the invention of his tomb in 1922.

The venue hosted one other immersive exhibit this winter on the life and art work of Vincent Van Gogh. The attraction proved so fashionable, its keep in Boston was prolonged.

“The invention of the intact tomb of King Tut captured the creativeness of the world, and the mysteries surrounding the tomb nonetheless resonate as we speak,” organizers mentioned. “Drawing from the storied archives of the Nationwide Geographic Society, the exhibition combines the ability of cinematic storytelling and hovering imagery made potential with state-of-the-art projection mapping to ask guests into the golden king’s world like by no means earlier than.”

“‘Past King Tut’ can be a must-see for anybody serious about Egypt and the historical past of King Tut,” Kathryn Keane, vp of public programming for the Nationwide Geographic Society, mentioned in an announcement. “New applied sciences are making it potential to totally immerse individuals like by no means earlier than in vital tales from our previous, permitting us to develop connections and perceive historical past’s affect on our current and future generations.”

Following stays in Boston and Washington, D.C., the exhibit will journey throughout North America.

The exhibit is produced by the Paquin Leisure Group, which additionally produced immersive displays on Van Gogh and Claude Monet, at the side of Nationwide Geographic.

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