An immersive King Tut experience is featured at Milwaukee's Baird Center
"National Geographic's Beyond King Tut", an immersive experience commemorating the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the ancient pharaoh's tomb, will be coming to the Wisconsin Center — soon to be renamed the Baird Center — this fall.
The Wisconsin Center has hosted other immersive exhibitions over the past few years, including "Beyond Van Gogh" in 2021, "Beyond Monet" in 2022 and "The Immersive Nutcracker" during the 2022 Christmas season.
The King Tut experience will include nine multi-sensory galleries where visitors will see what King Tut's tomb looked like when it was discovered, experience what sites like the Temple at Karnak and the Great Sphinx look like now, as well as see representations of what Egypt would have looked like at the time of King Tut's rule 3,000 years ago, and go on an imaginative journey of what people believed the pharaoh's trip through the underworld would have looked like. The exhibition will culminate in a room where visitors will be surrounded by projections of King Tut's treasures.
Timed tickets for the 1-hour experience will go on sale June 15. Tickets start at $29.99 for adults, $23.99 for kids ages 5-15 and $24.99 for students, seniors and military members. Kids under 5 are free. Tickets can be purchased through the website, beyondkingtut.com.
The experience will be at the Baird Center, at 400 W. Wisconsin Ave., Oct. 13 through Jan. 6.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: King Tut Milwaukee is at the Baird Center 2023: Schedule, tickets
