The Time of the Pharaohs exhibition, which ended March 12 at the Musée de la Civilization, attracted 225,000 visitors, an average of 56,000 people per month.
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These achievements have allowed the Musée de la Civilization to regain pre-pandemic attendance levels. We even expect to significantly exceed the figures for the 2019/2020 season on March 31st.
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Curator Caroline Dempsey, conservator at the University of Aberdeen Museum in Scotland, unwrapping a mummy quilt from the Pharaohs International Exhibition at the Museum of Civilization. Photo credit François Ozan – Icon Agency.
“After MAYA, Pompeii. Immortal city and the time of the pharaohs, it’s a great journey into the heart of ancient civilizations that ends. For its next installment, the museum proposes exploring themes with a social dimension, inviting us to see the world differently and opening ourselves to all realities in order to live better together,” explained Stéphan La Roche in a press release. President and CEO of the Musée de la civilization.
New exhibitions
The museum is opening three new exhibitions in the next few weeks.
Inspiring Nature, Inspired Engineering, on view from April 6th, lets visitors see how observing wildlife has made it possible to imagine innovative solutions in the field of transportation.
On May 18, the One of a Kind exhibition will explore the realities of gender identity.
For tomorrow, on view from June 14th, focuses on an alternative future and concrete and positive ways to address the challenge of climate change through art, design, science and philosophy. This exhibition is produced in co-production with the renowned Barbican Center in London.
Visitors also have until March 26 to explore the exhibitions “Ô Merde! and “Observe”. The exhibition that confuses! who are on the way. Oh shit! won an excellence award from the Société des Musées du Québec in 2022 for its innovative character.