King Tut exhibit ready for display in Indianapolis

[IndianaGreen]

King Tut exhibit ready for display in Indianapolis

Updated: June 18, 2009 06:23 PM EDT

Mary Milz/Eyewitness News

Indianapolis - It's an exhibit fit for a king and it opens next week in Indianapolis and adults and kids alike are excited to see it.

"It was King Tut something or other. I was just a kid," said one visitor to the Children's Museum

Thirty years after a blockbuster tour, King Tut is back in the United States and this time, he's playing Indianapolis.

"It's big. Very big," said Children's Museum President Jeffrey Patchen.

Crews have spent the past few weeks unpacking a priceless collection of ancient Eygptian treasures. It includes 50 objects from Tut's tomb, unearthed in 1922.

"The tomb to this day is the most intact tomb every discovered and when Howard Carter pushed through that wall and said, 'I see wonderful things,' some of those things are here, on display at the Children's Museum," said Mark Lach with Arts & Exhibitions International.

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Tut is here thru Novemver and is expected to draw from well beyond Indiana. In fact, the musuem has already presold 75,000 tickets.

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[Delphinus]

1. I'd love to see this.

Can't imagine having sold 75,000 tickets ahead of time - wow!