25 Oct 2018
27 Jan 2019

SINGERS AND PRIESTS FROM AMON TO THÈBES

Musée de Grenoble

The 2018 autumn season at the Musée de Grenoble will be marked by an exhibition-cum-event devoted to ancient Egypt, organized with the Louvre. It will propose an archaeological plunge into the powerful city of Thebes 3000 years ago, by way of its necropolis and the monumental temple of Amun. Relying on the Grenoble collection, complemented by almost 200 works from the Musée du Louvre and other loans from European museums, the exhibition will introduce visitors to the intimate life of Theban society in the Third Intermediate Period (1069 – 664 BCE). That society paying allegiance to the deityAmun-Ra in the temple at Karnak found itself, for those 500 years, at the heart of major political and economic challenges. In particular, the exhibition will emphasize the important role played by women at that time. A novel subject especially devised for Grenoble.

General information

MUSÉE DE GRENOBLE
5, place de Lavalette - 38 000 Grenoble
+33 (0)4 76 63 44 11
Every day (except on Tuesday), from 10am to 6pm
www.museedegrenoble.fr

DIRECTION

Curators:

General curator: Guy Tosatto, director of the Musée de Grenoble

Scientific curator: Florence Gombert-Meurice, head patrimonial curator in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities at the Musée du Louvre, in collaboration with Frédéric Payraudeau, lecturer at the Sorbonne University

 

Curator for Grenoble : Valérie Huss, patrimonial curator at the Musée de Grenoble

CONTACT

Caroline Vaisson / caroline@claudinecolin.com