Review: Discovering Ancient Egypt at Queensland Museum Kurilpa
So I finally visited the Discovering Ancient Egypt exhibition at Queensland Museum Kurilpa on the 30th of December. The exhibition started back in October, but getting to the Museum isn’t easy for me, so I finally went and saw it when a visiting friend suggested we should see it. While she is another ancient history alumna from The University of Queensland, she is also English and therefore wanted to escape Brisbane’s summer heat for a few hours. While I too enjoyed the air conditioning, I wish I’d been to see it sooner, as the Museum was packed with families, including the exhibition. No, I don’t like crowded exhibition spaces, but I love seeing children as engaged with the past as much as I was at that age. That kind of engagement is why ancient history will always be popular. The exhibition uses timed entrance, so it could definitely have been more crowded, but this should be taken into consideration by visitors if they have a neurodivergency or suffer from claustrophobia. If this s...
