AusLeisure

The National Gallery of Victoria has this week opened ‘Pharaoh’ – the largest ancient Egyptian exhibition to be held in Australia and which marks the 20th anniversary of the blockbuster Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition series.

Pharaoh is supported by Visit Victoria through the State Government’s Major Events Fund as part of the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series. Over the past two decades, the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibitions have attracted more than seven million local, interstate and international visitors, generating an economic impact of $690 million.

Exclusive to Melbourne, ‘Pharaoh’ takes visitors on a journey through 3000 years of ancient Egyptian art, design and culture, including monumental sculptures, tomb and temple architecture, intricately decorated coffins and funerary objects, and exquisite jewellery.

The exhibition highlights the art and artistry of ancient Egypt and give audiences a close up of the artistic skill behind ancient Egyptian sculptors, painters and craftspeople – whose lives were largely spent working in service of the Pharaoh.

With more than 500 works on loan from the British Museum, Pharaoh will be the largest international exhibition the British Museum has ever presented in its 270-year history. It is also the largest ancient Egyptian exhibition ever to arrive in Australia.

This winter, there is also a free exhibition for children and families as well as a new season of NGV Friday Nights, which will attract even more visitors to this world-class exhibition.

NGV Director Tony Ellwood advised “Pharaoh seeks to introduce a new generation of visitors to the fascinating visual culture of ancient Egypt through an unprecedented exhibition of sculpture, architecture, jewellery and more from the British Museum in London.”

Pharaoh will run until 6th October 2024 at NGV International.

Visit www.ngv.vic.gov.au for more information. 

Related Articles

18th April 2024 - NGV announces Yayoi Kusama retrospective as next summer’s blockbuster exhibition

8th April 2024 - NGV Triennial attracts more than one million visitors

12th February 2024 - NGV Triennial attracts more than half a million visitors to date

5th December 2023 - NGV Triennial blockbuster added to Melbourne’s summer calendar of creative events

4th September 2023 - ‘Melbourne Now’ one of most popular exhibitions at NGV’s Ian Potter Centre

7th April 2023 - NGV Triennial to feature more than 25 world-premiere projects

12th January 2023 - Largest ever NGV Kids on Tour program brings free art activities to 130 venues across Victoria

12th December 2022 - NGV opens its blockbuster Alexander McQueen exhibition

19th April 2022 - $100 million donated to NGV Contemporary

15th March 2022 - Designs revealed for Melbourne’s new NGV Contemporary  

18th September 2021 - Four architectural firms shortlisted to design Melbourne’s new NGV Contemporary

7th April 2021 - Players and coaches to benefit from Tennis Australia technology partnership with SwingVision

30th March 2021 - NGV Melbourne Design Week features panel discussion on transforming everyday public spaces into thriving third places

---

Support our industry news service
We hope that you value the news that we publish so while you're here can we ask for your support?

As an independent publisher, we need reader support for our industry news gathering so ask that - if you don't already do so - you back us by subscribing to the printed Australasian Leisure Management magazine and/or our online news.