According to the Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, the promotion meeting of "Top of the Pyramid: Ancient Egyptian Civilization Exhibition" was held today, and the exhibition will open on July 18 at the People's Square Pavilion of the Shanghai Museum, and will be open to the public on July 19, and the exhibition period will be extended to August 17, 2025. As the fourth exhibition in the series of "Dialogue with the World" Cultural Relics and Art Exhibition of the Shanghai Museum, this exhibition is the world's largest and Asia's highest-level outbound exhibition of ancient Egyptian cultural relics, and it is also the first time that an official museum of China has cooperated with the Egyptian government to comprehensively reveal the secrets of ancient Egyptian civilization and its latest archaeological discoveries.
The exhibition brings together 492 groups of 788 precious artifacts from different periods of ancient Egyptian civilization, including statues of pharaohs such as Tutankhamun, Amenemhet III and Ramses II, mummified caskets, gold ornaments of the queen, and newly discovered painted wooden coffins, animal mummies and statues in the Saqqara region. More than 95% of these cultural relics are selected from seven key Egyptian museums, including the National Museum of Egypt, the Luxor Museum, and the Suez Museum, as well as the latest archaeological discoveries in the Saqara region, and more than 95% of the cultural relics are coming to Asia for the first time, jointly revealing the face of ancient Egyptian civilization for the audience. For more information about the exhibition and ticket purchase guide, please refer to ↓
The largest ever in the world
Ancient Egyptian Antiquities Export Exhibition
金字塔之巅 On Top of the Pyramid
The Nile River flows through the thousands of miles of desert and flows north into the Mediterranean Sea, where the fertile black soil on the banks of the river nurtured life, where the ancient Egyptian civilization germinated and became one of the sources of human civilization. It gave birth to early writing, cities, and states, developed complex and self-contained belief systems, and underwent the selection and reinvention of multiple civilizations in a long period of integration and exchange with the surrounding region. The sacred spaces created by the pyramids and temples, and the magnificent frescoes buried in the Valley of the Kings and the tombs of the nobles, together build the eternal myth of ancient Egyptian civilization.
On the west bank of the Nile in the morning, the temple of Hatshepsut is surrounded by red earth.
Through the three sections of "The Kingdom of the Pharaohs", "The Secret of Saqqara" and "The Age of Tutankhamun", the exhibition unfolds an independent narrative, looking back on the long years nourished by the great river, tracing the interweaving of myth and reality, gaining insight into the overall appearance and historical details of ancient Egyptian civilization, and interpreting the profound connotation of ancient Egyptian civilization from different perspectives.
In "Top of the Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Civilization", visitors will enjoy:
The Land of the Pharaohs
"The Kingdom of the Pharaohs" will introduce the world of the gods, which is a reflection of the ancient Egyptians' cosmology rooted in the natural geographical environment, and present a condensed history of ancient Egyptian civilization, discussing the ancient Egyptians' cosmological concepts, social order, writing, craftsman skills, burial customs, etc., covering all aspects from social system, daily life to the spiritual world.
Clay pots depicting boats, animals and birds
Pottery, pigments
Predynastic period (c. 5300-3000 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Water-patterned pottery bowl
Pottery, pigments
Predynastic period (c. 5300-3000 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Water-patterned clay pots
pottery
Predynastic period (c. 5300-3000 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Osiris stands like this
bronze
Late Egypt (664-332 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Statue of Osiris of the resurrection
Gneiss, gold, pigments
26th Dynasty (664-525 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Painted wooden gilded statue of Osiris
wood, pigments
Ptolemaic Egyptian period (332-30 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Pottery of the Eye of Horus
pottery
New Kingdom (1550-1069 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Eye of Horus
metal
Late Egypt (664-332 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Statue of Myrenpta Station
granite
New Kingdom (1550-1069 BC)
Luxor Museum
Standing statue of Queen Tye
Granodiorite
18th Dynasty (1550-1295 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Meerkat bronze statue
bronze
Late Egypt (664-332 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Limestone painted cobra statue
Limestone, pigments
Late Egypt (664-332 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Limestone eagle-headed crocodile statue
limestone
Late Egypt (664-332 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Wooden painted duck-shaped vanity case
tree
New Kingdom (1550-1069 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
The scarab beetle of Amondhotep III
Fianse
18th Dynasty (1550-1295 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Winged scarabs
Fianse, wood
New Kingdom (1550-1069 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Limestone painted monument
Limestone, pigments
Middle Kingdom (2055-1650 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Limestone painted monument
Limestone, pigments
12th Dynasty (1985-1773 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Limestone painted monument
Limestone, pigments
20 dynasty
National Museum of Egypt
A pottery shard with a dart bird is depicted
Fianse
New Kingdom (1550-1069 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Alabaster offering table with inscription with circular grooves
Snow Flower Gypsum
The Old Kingdom
National Museum of Egypt
Painted portraits of Kamherset and his wife and children
Limestone, pigments
6 dynasty
National Museum of Egypt
Glazed stone bricks decorated with papyrus pools
calcite
New Kingdom (1550-1069 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Kinoi Mengu
卡托内支(Cartonnage)
Late Egypt (664-332 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Kinoi Mengu
gypsum
Ptolemaic Egyptian period (332-30 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Portrait of Kinoi
Wood, beeswax, gold
Ptolemaic Egyptian period (332-30 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Servant bakes bread and makes wine like it
wood, pigments
The Old Kingdom
National Museum of Egypt
Senit chess
tree
19th dynasty
National Museum of Egypt
A bronze shield-shaped pendant with the head of Isis or Hator
Bronze, gold
Late Egypt (664-332 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Statue of Nifertem with glass inlay
Bronze glass
Late Egypt (664-332 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Seated statue of Anubis
bronze
Late Egypt (664-332 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Bronze statue of the Holy Ship of Horus
bronze
Late Egypt (664-332 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Gold wide collar
gold
12th Dynasty (1985-1773 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Two goddesses gold pendant
Gold, silver, lapis lazuli
22nd Dynasty (945-715 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Statue of a gold-covered crested ibis
Bronze, gold, wood
Late Egypt (664-332 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Painted inlaid head of Osiris
Wood, stucco, glass, gold, pigments
26th Dynasty (664-525 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
The Book of the Dead by the Singer of Amun
Papyrus, pigments
Late Egypt (664-332 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
The Secrets of Saqqara
Saqara archaeological site
"The Secrets of Saqqara" will systematically unveil for the first time the major discoveries made by the Egyptian archaeological team since the launch of independent archaeology in the Saqqara region, tracing the long trajectory of religious practices, including the worship of sacred animals, the worship of the cat god Bastet, and the funeral customs of the cat god priests, etc., to interpret the cultural significance of Saqara as a retro capital.
The exhibition hall incorporates "youth-friendly" into the design principles, lowers the height of the display cases and display belts, designs touchable cultural relics models, dynamically interprets the one-sided cat god, and creates a montage of cat temples, in order to arouse the audience's reverie through the combination of virtual and real scenes.
Nekokinoi
Late Egypt (664-332 BC)
Saqqara
Crocodile mummy
Late Egypt (664-332 BC)
Saqqara
Painted wooden model of a humanoid coffin with the head of an eagle
wood, pigments
Late Egypt (664-332 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Painted cover
卡托内支(Cartonnage)
Late Egypt (664-332 BC)
Saqqara
Painted humanoid coffin
wood, pigments
Late Egypt (664-332 BC)
Saqqara
Bronze cat-headed human body Buster statue
bronze
Late Egypt (664-332 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
The Age of Tutankhamun
The narrative of the exhibition is integrated with the rhythmic space of the exhibition hall. The audience will enter the encircling video space through the narrow walkway, witnessing the life ritual of the young pharaoh and empathizing with the life and death separation of the 14th century BC. The blank space near the large statue attempts to restore the grandeur of the desert seen from the inside of the building, and to leave enough space for the statues of the two pharaohs to look at each other.
Nefertiti resembles a head
quartzite
18th Dynasty (1550-1295 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Quartzite statue of Tutankhamun, usurped by Eyer and Helumb
Quartzite, pigments
18th Dynasty (1550-1295 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
The Colossus of Ehnatun
Sandstone, pigments
18th Dynasty (1550-1295 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Nefertiti reliefs
limestone
18th Dynasty (1550-1295 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Painted vase decorated with lotus pattern
Wood, plaster
18th Dynasty (1550-1295 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
A chair with the image of a bass god
Wood, pigment, silver
18th Dynasty (1550-1295 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Chests decorated with gold, ivory and feyonce, bearing the names of Amenhotep III and Queen Tye
Wood, Fionce, gold, ivory
18th Dynasty (1550-1295 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Hand image tooth castanets
ivory
18th Dynasty (1550-1295 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Fianse Blue Crown
Fianse
18th Dynasty (1550-1295 BC)
National Museum of Egypt
Visit the ticket purchase guide
From July 19, 2024, the Shanghai Museum will grandly launch the fourth exhibition of the "Dialogue with the World" cultural relics and art exhibition series, "Top of the Pyramid: Ancient Egyptian Civilization Exhibition", drawing on the experience of the previous two special exhibition ticket sales, audience experience feedback and the operability of on-site services, etc., the tickets for this exhibition will be sold on the basis of the museum's real-name reservation opening measures, in accordance with the model of "early bird tickets are purchased first and then redeemed" and "full-price tickets are sold on demand". The specific visit ticket purchase guide is as follows:
1. Exhibition information
Exhibition Hours:
July 19, 2024 to August 17, 2025
(Closed on Mondays, except national holidays)
Exhibition Venue:
Shanghai Museum (People's Square)
All exhibition halls on the first floor
2. Ticketing channels
Tickets are sold through the official WeChat mini-program of Shangbo, on-site ticket offices and Ctrip.com.
3. Ticket prices
Tickets for the exhibition are divided into early bird tickets, full-price tickets, designated day tickets, discounted tickets, and parent-child tickets.
| Ticket type: | Price | Available time |
| Early Bird Ticket (200,000 photos) | 120 | Redemption in 2024 only (exhibition opening hours in 2024) |
| Full price ticket | 148 | During the opening of the exhibition |
| Designated day passes | 135 | Opening hours of the exhibition except 2024.7.19-8.31, 2025.1.1-2.28, 2025.7.1-8.17, Saturdays, Sundays, and national holidays |
| Concession tickets | 74 | During the opening of the exhibition |
| Parent-child ticket A (One large and one small) | 200 | During the opening of the exhibition |
| Parent-child ticket B (2 large and 1 small) (3 tickets) | 320 | During the opening of the exhibition |
4. Ticket purchase time
Early bird tickets are available from May 20, 2024 to July 5, 2024. Limited to 200,000 copies, while stocks last.
All other ticket types are available from July 6, 2024 to August 17, 2025.
*Tickets sold are non-refundable and non-exchangeable.
5. Discounts and free tickets
The Shanghai Museum will implement the following preferential ticketing policies:
Parent-child ticket: Applicable to children under the age of 14 (exclusive) and over 1.3 meters in height.
Preferential tickets: Preferential tickets are available for seniors over 60 years old (inclusive), minors over 6 years old and 18 years old and below, full-time university students with bachelor's degree or below, and active military personnel with valid certificates. Children under 1.3 meters tall or under 6 years old (inclusive) (one adult can bring two free children) and disabled people with valid certificates are entitled to free ticket benefits.
6. Tips for making an appointment for a visit
Visitors who have successfully purchased can get an electronic QR code to enter the exhibition hall, with a regular exhibition ticket on the same day, and can visit the permanent exhibition and special exhibition with their original ID card on the day of visit.
1. Early Bird Ticket
Early bird tickets for this exhibition are reserved for ticket purchase on a "first-come, first-exchanged" basis. Visitors need to purchase the temporary exhibition visit rights (redemption code) without a specified date in their real names, and one ID card is limited to 20 pieces, and can be purchased repeatedly. Within 14 days before the opening of the exhibition (from July 6), you can make a temporary exhibition reservation through the Shanghai Museum's WeChat mini-program with a redemption code (no need to make a permanent exhibition repeatedly), and the redemption and use period is from July 19, 2024 to December 31, 2024, and you can choose the date and number of visits within 30 days. Visitors are required to make a real-name reservation, one ticket per person, and each ID card is limited to about 1 time per day.
2. Full-fare tickets, designated day tickets, discounted tickets, and parent-child tickets
The exhibition adopts a "first-to-serve" ticket reservation method. Visitors can purchase tickets for the temporary exhibition within 30 days on a first-served basis on a first-served basis on a first-come, first-served basis 14 days in advance (including the day of the day) on the "Shanghai Museum Visit Reservation" mini program. When purchasing, you need to fill in the real-name information of the reserved visitor, and select the date and number of visits. After the reservation is successful, you can enter the museum with your original ID card.
After purchasing tickets, visitors must bring their original valid documents to the museum for inspection.
Visitors who meet the conditions for free admission can enter the museum with their original valid documents for verification on site.
3. Group (On-site Ticket)
Group visitors can make an appointment by phone for the permanent exhibition visit, and more than 20 people must purchase on-site tickets on the day of visit, with a letter of introduction from the unit and an itinerary, according to the actual number of group members arriving at the museum.
7. Change Tips
1. The early bird ticket can be changed 3 times after successful reservation, and can be changed to all open days.
2. Full-price tickets, designated day tickets, discounted tickets, and parent-child tickets can be changed twice after successful reservation. Full-price tickets, discounted tickets, and parent-child tickets can be changed to all open days; Designated day tickets can only be changed to designated dates; Parent-child tickets can be changed in units of a full package.
3. The difference will not be refunded on the designated date for the change of full-fare ticket.
If you have any questions, please call the consultation hotline: (021) 63723500 ext. 132 and 134.
Exhibition name
Top of the Pyramids: An Exhibition of Ancient Egyptian Civilization
On Top of the Pyramid: The Civilization of Ancient Egypt
Exhibition Hours:
2024.7.19-2025.8.17
(Closed on Mondays, except national holidays)
Exhibition Venue:
Shanghai Museum People's Square 1st Floor
No. 201, Renmin Avenue, Huangpu District, Shanghai
1F Shanghai Museum on People’s Square
No. 201 Ren Min Da Dao, Huangpu District, Shanghai
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