Tutmania has officially begun in Chicago. Field Museum members snapped up 4,000 discount tickets to next year’s “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” by 4 p.m. Tuesday, the opening day for individual sales, the museum said.
Including prior group sales, the museum has sold 33,000 tickets so far to the exhibition, which is to open a seven-month run May 26. The general public has to wait until Jan. 24 to buy tickets, at $25 each. Members pay $10.
The museum recently established two premium membership levels for this exhibition, the Royal Tut ($125) and the Tut at Twilight ($250), which add such kingly touches as a priority admission line and special “connoisseur” viewing nights.
For more information, see the new section on the Field’s Web site devoted to the exhibition, www.fieldmuseum.org/tut.
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