Tutankhamun in London
Embark on a high-tech, immersive journey into the ancient land of pharaohs, mystical tombs, and treasure rooms. This cutting-edge educational and entertaining exhibition, comes to London for a strictly limited 14-week run in 2025!
In 2020 the Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh exhibition was cut short due to Covid so the return of the young Egyptian King is a fabulous opportunity to witness the riches and priceless artifacts, recovered from Tutankhamun’s tomb, in London, ever!
The exhibition at the Immerse LDN, on the Excel London Waterfront. will be open from 28 March to 29 June only, so don’t miss out!
103 years after Howard Carter went to Egypt to discover the tomb of the Golden Pharaoh, this virtual exhibition will bring to life the man and his ancient kingdom 3300 year after his death.
The Permanant Exhibition Cairo
I remember going to the exhibition in London back when I was a lad, but to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Carter’s discovery, the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo built a new permanent exhibition to house the treasures. So, just like Carter, future generations will have to go to Egypt to see the riches that include King Tut’s famous Guardian Statue.
As this is the case, tickets for this virtual treat in London are selling very quickly.
Tutankhamun in London
Guests will enter via an infinity room with a walking Anubis before being presented with captivating
background stories about Egyptian civilization alongside carefully curated replicas and artefacts. The
experience continues into a huge immersive video mapping room which recounts the rich history of
Egypt, its natural landscapes, cultural heritage, the life of Tutankhamun, his tomb, and its
groundbreaking discovery.
During the 30-minute immersive movie, the moment of the discovery of the tomb is described by the
real voice of Howard Carter, the famous British archaeologist, adding an extraordinary layer of
authenticity to the experience. Visitors will also embark on a 360-degree seated virtual reality
experience, journeying into the mystical Egyptian afterlife before entering yet another hi-tech space
where they will witness a hologram presentation, vividly bringing to life the entire mummification
process of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
Finally, the experience invites visitors to step into an interactive digital metaverse walk-through of the
Valley of the Kings, exploring Howard Carter’s basecamp, and reliving the monumental moment of the
1922 discovery in its full glory. At the end of the experience, every visitor will be able to capture a
memento of their day with a photograph in the AI photobooth where they will be transformed into a
citizen of ancient Egypt.
The approximate 90-minute journey through ancient Egypt’s rich history and mythology features a
wealth of educational and informative displays, historical documents, original artefacts and replicas
from ancient Egypt, and has been designed with children, families, schools and history enthusiasts in
mind, as well as those interested in ground-breaking technology. The soundtrack has been composed
specifically for the experience and is performed by an orchestra, immersing visitors further into the
magic of ancient Egypt.
Tickets
Tutankhamun: The Immersive Exhibition will be located at Immerse LDN, London’s newest immersive
entertainment district at Excel London Waterfront, just 12 minutes from Central London on the
Elizabeth Line.
The waitlist for Tutankhamun: The Immersive Exhibition is now open with tickets on general on sale
from 31st January 2025. Adult tickets will be priced from £20, children from £15.50. Schools can apply
for a special group booking rate by emailing [email protected].
The experience will run from 28th March – 27th June 2025, for a strictly limited 14-week run only, before
leaving the UK to go on a wider European tour.
Join the waitlist here for exclusive pre-sale access.
Who was Tutankhamun
Tutankhamun was a child pharaoh. When he died at the age of 18 he had ruled Egypt for 9 years. Now, you’d expect an 18 year old boy’s room to be a tad messy, especially after 3000 years. But miraculously, the tomb that Howard Carter found in 1922, contained thousands of artefacts, preserved in pristine condition!
We know him as Tutankhamun, Tutankhaten and King Tut. Son of Ahkenaten (famous for being the only Pharaoh who had a Broadway musical named after him), his mother was his father’s sister! So with a whole load of interbreeding there is no wonder that he was a very sick, very odd looking and very short lived boy!
His father had made a lot of changes in his reign, so the young king spent most of his reign being told to “correct” those changes. The priests, for example, were not impressed by the new fad of worshiping just one god! So the priests persuaded the boy Pharaoh to put that right. He also returned the capital to Thebes.
Other than that he did a bit of building to make sure he was remembered by future generations and fought the Nubians and Asiatics to make sure he was remembered by his subjects.
Typical Pharaoh stuff really!
Which all goes to show that Tutankhamun is most famous for being discovered by Howard Carter in 1922!
The 2019 London Exhibition – What you Came to See
The London Exhibition was part of a worldwide tour for the artifacts which will take in 10 cities world wide. Starting in LA, it went to Paris before coming to London. Japan, Canada, Australia and South Korea also played hosts to Sixty pieces that left Egypt for the first time. In the words of Mostafa Waziry, secretary general of Egypt’s Ministry of State for Antiquities
See them, visit them, before they return back to Egypt forever!
The exhibition also delved into the science of Egyptology. It studied how we have extracted the information we have from the artfacts. Likewise it looksed at how DNA testing on the mummies has given us an insight into the Royal families of Ancient Egypt.
Why is Theatre Breaks So Excited About Tutankhamun?
When the treasures from Tutankhamun’s tomb first visited the UK in 1972, 1.7 million people (including me) queued for hours at the British Museum. Then, 1997, ‘Tutankhamun And The Golden Age of the Pharaohs’ sold over 300,000 tickets before it had even opened. Then in 2019 our last chance came but was interupted by Covid
Now we have this amazing Virtual treat instead so that we can see the world of King T like never before.