Back!
Well, technically getting to Ft. Lauderdale or Miami is faster using I75, but boy is it mind-numbingly boring! I think I'll prefer the Turnpike-SR60-Polk Parkway-I4 route from now on. Besides, that takes me vaguely by the Finnish bakery, if I have time to stop there.
Now, the exhibit.
The Good:
It's organized very well. My teutonic heart is proud.
It's set up gorgeously. The lighting is by and large superb, and at times I had to check to make sure there was glass between me and the artifact, since I couldn't see any. Considering the threats of it being sold out and all, there was very little pushing and showing and plenty of time to look at everything.
I'm again amazed at how well the ancient Egyptian beauty ideal seems to match mine.
I'm amazed at their sculpting, glass working and making little knick-knacks proficiency. Tiny little hinges, and drawers, and metal strings, and all those things you'd think were modern inventions since Europeans in the 1300's were unable to make them, were superbly executed by the Egyptians.
Fort Lauderdale downtown is swanky. Like, $10+ million yacht swanky.
The parking garage nearest to the museum has a sign on the second or third floor on the up ramp:
"Don't worry, there are 7 floors." I parked on 6. The parking payment system is very neat!
The Bad:
I may be picky, but I didn't think there were that many items in the exhibit, really, and most of them were footstools and makeup jars. No mummies, no mummybilia, no burial mask of Tut or any other pharaoh, and the only sarcophagus belonged to some in-law of some other pharaoh-related person. Gorgeous, though.
If you're interested, please, do go see it! If you're not burning to go... Well, it might not be worth ten hours in the car, two tanks of gas and some $37+audio tour+$3/bottle of water+...
But I like road trips, so it was a win-win :-)
No cameras allowed, so no pictures. Sorry!
Now, the exhibit.
The Good:
It's organized very well. My teutonic heart is proud.
It's set up gorgeously. The lighting is by and large superb, and at times I had to check to make sure there was glass between me and the artifact, since I couldn't see any. Considering the threats of it being sold out and all, there was very little pushing and showing and plenty of time to look at everything.
I'm again amazed at how well the ancient Egyptian beauty ideal seems to match mine.
I'm amazed at their sculpting, glass working and making little knick-knacks proficiency. Tiny little hinges, and drawers, and metal strings, and all those things you'd think were modern inventions since Europeans in the 1300's were unable to make them, were superbly executed by the Egyptians.
Fort Lauderdale downtown is swanky. Like, $10+ million yacht swanky.
The parking garage nearest to the museum has a sign on the second or third floor on the up ramp:
"Don't worry, there are 7 floors." I parked on 6. The parking payment system is very neat!
The Bad:
I may be picky, but I didn't think there were that many items in the exhibit, really, and most of them were footstools and makeup jars. No mummies, no mummybilia, no burial mask of Tut or any other pharaoh, and the only sarcophagus belonged to some in-law of some other pharaoh-related person. Gorgeous, though.
If you're interested, please, do go see it! If you're not burning to go... Well, it might not be worth ten hours in the car, two tanks of gas and some $37+audio tour+$3/bottle of water+...
But I like road trips, so it was a win-win :-)
No cameras allowed, so no pictures. Sorry!