Fort Worth Kimbell lands major exhibit highlighting the Egyptian pharaohs
Next year, visitors to the Kimbell Art Museum will get a rare opportunity to see artifacts from over 3,000 years of ancient Egyptian history in the “Treasures of the Pharaohs” exhibit.
The Kimbell announced May 12 that the museum is one of only two venues in the United States to exhibit 130 artifacts showing the lives and history of the pharaohs who ruled ancient Egypt. The artifacts are from the Luxor Museum and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
“Treasures of the Pharaohs” will run from March 14, 2027, through Sept. 19, 2027, according to a news release from the museum.
The exhibit will be in the Renzo Piano Pavilion.
“From the scale and splendor of some of the artifacts on view to the revelations about day-to-day life and inclusion of objects from one of the most recently excavated sites in Egypt, visitors will find this exhibition brilliant, both visually and intellectually,” Eric M. Lee, the museum’s director, said in the news release,
Artifacts introduced for the first time will show the lives of those often overlooked in presentations of ancient Egyptian art history.
Treasures of the Pharaohs is on display at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome, and it will then travel to the de Young Museum in San Francisco, when the exhibit will be on display from Aug. 1, 2026, through Jan. 31, 2027.