The Arsenyev Museum invites to educational lectures for the project “Ancient Egypt”. The art of immortality

On March 1, in the Museum-Reserve of the History of the Far East named after V.K. Arsenyev, a grandiose project "Ancient Egypt" begins work. The Art of Immortality. 

In the halls of the main building of the museum (Svetlanskaya, 20) 90 unique exhibits from the vaults of the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin have already "settled" However, residents and guests of Vladivostok can touch the secrets of the ancient civilization before the opening of the exhibition. On February 28 at 18:30, the Arsenyev Museum invites you to the first educational lecture within the framework of the project.

All who come to the lecture will have a rare opportunity to meet directly with the director of the Pushkin Museum Elizaveta Likhacheva, to hear her story about the history of the formation of the largest Egyptian collection in Russia.

Two more curatorial lectures are planned to help visitors to the Arsenyev Museum to fully understand the Egyptian culture and influence of Ostogodov in 18;

The legend of Osiris, written in a holistic form by Greek authors, amazes with its humanity and is close not only to ancient but also to modern people. The cult of Osiris is closely related to funerary rituals, and its mysteries are an important element of temple and coronation ceremonies. Register for a lecture on March 1 you can at link

Amuhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuhmuh It was an interdisciplinary project in which the latest natural-scientific approaches to research were combined with traditional historical and stylistic methods. So the researchers were able to “see” the mummies from the inside, without destroying them: to establish gender, age, features of the structure of the body, diseases; to consider in detail the process of mummification, and the structure of swaddling and decor of mummies more reliably date some of them. On March 2, Olga Dyuzheva will talk about the technique of mummification in ancient Egypt, about the scientific project and its results. The meeting begins at 12:00. Register for the lecture on March 2 at link.