The highly anticipated King Tut exhibit at the Museum of Art [Fort Lauderdale] is scheduled to open Thursday, but there is a lot more work to be done.

The eyes of the museum world are on Fort Lauderdale while the eyes of everyone at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale are on the clock. The big King Tut exhibit will open to the public on Thursday, and the museum is still missing a key feature of that exhibit: the staircase to get into the museum...

There are several links to images in this article including one showing exhibits being brought in.

Museum Works To Finish Staircase Before King Tut Opening, NBC6.net, Florida, USA, December 13, 2005.

... The Museo Egizio [di Torino] claims the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities outside of Cairo, built upon treasures amassed by a Piedmont man who did well by doing good as a diplomat in Egypt during Napoleon's time. There are some first-rate mummies and objects from the tomb of Queen Nefertiti. The space could use a little sprucing up, though, and few of the descriptors are in English...

Turin, beyond bronze, Chicago Tribune, Illinois, December 11, 2005.

The Intracoastal Waterway in Fort Lauderdale will light up Saturday for the annual Winterfest Boat Parade as the “Jewel of the Nile.”

The Broward tradition, in its 34th year, will celebrate the King Tut exhibit that opens Thursday at Fort Lauderdale's Museum of Art.

“With the King Tut exhibit coming in, we are all ready for that king of bling, that excitement,” said Kathy Keleher, marketing and parade director for the Seminole Hard Rock Winterfest Boat Parade...

Winterfest Boat Parade will tout Tut exhibit here, The Miami Herald, Florida, USA, December 13, 2005.

... Researchers hired by the National Geographic Society, one of the sponsors of the Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibit opening Thursday, used forensic data and CAT scans that made computer generated portraits of the boy king look more European, according to some black scholars.

The new images show him with a straighter nose and lighter skin than earlier renderings, some of which will also be on exhibit, the scholars say. He looks like a white Egyptian, not a black one, despite the fact that Egypt is in Africa.

As a consumer of history, I really don't care what the pictures of King Tut look like, so long as they tell the truth. But with all of this controversy I don't know what to believe. And I have reason to be suspicious...

Reasons to be suspicious about King Tut's image, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Florida, USA, December 13, 2005.