The Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, and the Adler Planetarium are excited to announce the new Museum Campus Pass: Two Kings and a Pharaoh!

The royal celebration has encompassed the entire campus! The Field Museum hosts the blockbuster exhibition Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, Shedd Aquarium presents the popular Lizards and the Komodo King, and the Adler Planetarium showcases the spectacular Egyptian Universe — Egyptian Nights: Secrets of the Sky Gods and Stars of the Pharaohs. The Museum Campus Pass is available from September 5 through October 31 [2006]...

Museum Campus Pass: Two Kings and a Pharaoh, PRNewswire, USA, September 01, 2006.

The Oklahoma City Museum of Art’s Special Exhibition Gallery didn’t look quite ready last week for a vast display of Egyptian antiquities, but several large statues gave a hint of the grandeur soon to grace the hall. The giant “Head of Amenhotep III” smiled down from a tall pedestal. The massive red granite “Lion of Amenhotep III Reinscribed for Tutankhamun” lounged in its own display space. The stone “Architectural Slab of Nectanebo I,” adorned with elaborate hieroglyphics, stood dark and mysterious.

“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have so close these ancient objects,” said Ernesto Sanchez, the museum’s exhibit designer and associate preparator. “This is rare. ... This is amazing to have them here.”

The museum begins its 2006-07 season — its fifth season in its downtown home — with “Temples and Tombs: Treasures of Egyptian Art from The British Museum.” The exhibit, organized by The British Museum and American Federation of Arts, opens to the public Thursday and will run through Nov. 26 [2006]...

What’s old is new Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Brandy McDonnell, The Oklahoman, Oklahoma, USA, September 03, 2006.