Visits in 2019-20
22nd March 2020 - Saatchi Gallery - Tutankhamun -Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh
The largest number of King Tutankhamun treasures ever to leave Egypt will be in London for an exhibition which organisers say will never happen again. It will have 150 original artefacts from Tutankhamun’s tomb, 60 of which have never left Egypt before. The objects will include a gold inlaid miniature coffin which contained the king’s liver after it was removed during the mummification process, a gilded wooden bed with carved lion feet probably made specially for Tutankhamun’s funeral and a gilded wooden shrine showing intimate scenes of royal domestic harmony. One of two life-sized guardian statues of the king, which flanked the sealed entrance to his burial chamber, will also be among the artefacts leaving Cairo for the first time.
19th April
Compton Verney: 16th-century Germanic art, paintings by Sir Joshua Reynolds and special exhibition of Cranach the Elder
17th May
Leicester Gallery: Victorian art, Arts and Crafts, Picasso Ceramics, German Expressionism & Cathedral: to see interior and tomb of Richard III
21st June
Wilton House: 1540’s house with 17th c. interiors and works by van Dyck, Pieter Brueghel and Rembrandt van Rijn
12th July
Althorp House – home of the Spencer family with works by Rubens, Van Dyck, Reynolds and Gainsborough
August 16th
Highclere: home of Downton Abbey, Earl of Carnarvon’s Egyptian antiquities and a large painting collection including Van Dyck and Dutch paintings from the 17th Century
October 11th
Burghley House: The collection of Italian Old Master paintings is one of the finest in private hands together with Oriental and European ceramics
Other 2020 visits will be included here once confirmed
The largest number of King Tutankhamun treasures ever to leave Egypt will be in London for an exhibition which organisers say will never happen again. It will have 150 original artefacts from Tutankhamun’s tomb, 60 of which have never left Egypt before. The objects will include a gold inlaid miniature coffin which contained the king’s liver after it was removed during the mummification process, a gilded wooden bed with carved lion feet probably made specially for Tutankhamun’s funeral and a gilded wooden shrine showing intimate scenes of royal domestic harmony. One of two life-sized guardian statues of the king, which flanked the sealed entrance to his burial chamber, will also be among the artefacts leaving Cairo for the first time.
19th April
Compton Verney: 16th-century Germanic art, paintings by Sir Joshua Reynolds and special exhibition of Cranach the Elder
17th May
Leicester Gallery: Victorian art, Arts and Crafts, Picasso Ceramics, German Expressionism & Cathedral: to see interior and tomb of Richard III
21st June
Wilton House: 1540’s house with 17th c. interiors and works by van Dyck, Pieter Brueghel and Rembrandt van Rijn
12th July
Althorp House – home of the Spencer family with works by Rubens, Van Dyck, Reynolds and Gainsborough
August 16th
Highclere: home of Downton Abbey, Earl of Carnarvon’s Egyptian antiquities and a large painting collection including Van Dyck and Dutch paintings from the 17th Century
October 11th
Burghley House: The collection of Italian Old Master paintings is one of the finest in private hands together with Oriental and European ceramics
Other 2020 visits will be included here once confirmed
