New York's Met to exhibit over 200 Egyptian pieces
New York's Met to exhibit over 200 Egyptian pieces
Latin Press
La Jornada Newspaper, Saturday, August 2, 2025, p. 5
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) announced that more than 200 original pieces, including sculptures and artifacts, featuring images of the gods of Ancient Egypt will be exhibited at the institution.
Starting October 12, the Divine Egypt exhibition will explore the spirituality and religious art of this distant, yet attractive and enigmatic civilization.
It will feature spiritual representations of these deities in temples, sanctuaries, and tombs, as well as the instruments that gave them life in daily worship, establishing a connection between the real and divine worlds. The works on display range from monumental statues to small, elegant figurines symbolizing 25 of the major idols of that era, including the falcon-headed god Horus; the lion-headed Sakhmet; and the great creator for the Egyptians, Ra, among others.
The museum's executive director, Max Hollein, noted that the exhibition brings together the finest works on loan from some of the world's leading institutions, including the Fine Arts Museum in Boston, the Louvre in Paris, and the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, although more than 140 of those objects belong to the Met itself, he noted.
The gallery highlighted that one of its most significant pieces is a solid gold statue of the god Amun, which will adorn a recreation of a divine barque
, a type of vessel that transported the main deity of a temple.
Aiming to examine the ways in which the kings and people of Ancient Egypt recognized and interacted with their gods, each exhibition section will offer an immersive opportunity to provide a window into the thought and spirituality of one of history's most enduring and sophisticated civilizations.
The exhibition highlights the profound sense of continuity and renewal with which the Egyptians addressed the great mysteries of life and death, anchoring their answers in the visual and symbolic richness of their religious art, the Met concluded.
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