San Francisco State University Museum
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Saturday, April 9, 2011, 11am-2:00pm
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago
Go "behind the scenes" at the SFSU University Museum's Sutro Egyptian Collection to see unusual mummified food, animals, and human remains not normally on public display. Our new exhibition, featuring 75 years of aerial photography, "Wings over the Pyramids: Will Egypt's Treasures Survive?" will be open. "How to disembowel a mummy," is a hands-on activity... [read more]
Go "behind the scenes" at the SFSU University Museum's Sutro Egyptian Collection to see unusual mummified food, animals, and human remains not normally on public display. Our new exhibition, featuring 75 years of aerial photography, "Wings over the Pyramids: Will Egypt's Treasures Survive?" will be open. "How to disembowel a mummy," is a hands-on activity for everyone so that you can learn what ancient Egyptian priests did to prepare a corpse for eternity! The SFSU University Museum is located in the Humanities building, 5th floor, room 500, on the SFSU campus at the corner of Font Blvd. & Tapia Dr. Details: Three private, guided tours are available on Obscura Day at 11:30am, 12:30pm, and 1:30pm. Each group is limited to 30 people. Get Inspired: Sutro's Mummies on Atlas Obscura Obscura Day is an international celebration of unusual places, happening all over the world on April 9, 2011. Visit ObscuraDay.com to see all of our 2011 events, and join the conversation on Twitter and Facebook.