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Cultural Celebrations and Ceremonies - Celebrating the Ancients: Egypt
 

Available Terms 1 - 4 of 2012

Levels: 1 - 5
Curriculum links: Social Studies (Identity, Cluture and Organisation; Continuity and Change) Cost: No charge

What is wrapped in cloth, wears a mask and has lived at the Museum for over a hundred years? Come and meet our real Egyptian Mummy and let her help you discover the ideas and processes behind mummification. Includes a simulated mummification ceremony and Starlab session where students hear the history of the origin of mummification told through Egyptian constellations. By the way we will need a volunteer to be mummified…!