Egyptian and Rosicrucian Museum

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Egyptian and Rosicrucian Museum
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Egyptian and Rosicrucian Museum
Established17 October 1990 (1990-10-17)
Coordinates 25°23′25″S49°13′32″W / 25.3904°S 49.2255°W / -25.3904; -49.2255
Website museuegipcioerosacruz.org.br

The Egyptian and Rosicrucian Museum is an Egyptian archaeology museum in Curitiba, Brazil. It has a collection composed mainly of replicas of Egyptian pieces belonging to several different periods. Its collection also includes Tothmea, the only Egyptian mummy in Brazil, donated to the museum in 1995 by the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose, California. [1]

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The museum opened on October 17, 1990.

Temporary exhibits

In 2013, Cícero Moraes created 12 panels on facial reconstruction related to human evolution, which were presented in the exhibition "Faces of Evolution". [2] All images displayed on that exhibition were donated to the Wikimedia Commons and came to illustrate posts of important publications online linked to science. [3] [4]

References

  1. ↑ Rocha, Alexndre (2 April 2019). "Museum has new digital recreation of Egyptian mummy - ANBA News Agency". anba.com.br. Retrieved 8 March 2025.
  2. ↑ "Faces of Evolution - Exhibition of facial forensic reconstructions of hominids". BlenderNation. 17 March 2013.
  3. ↑ Maslin, Mark. "How Climate Change and Plate Tectonics Shaped Human Evolution". Scientific American.
  4. ↑ McCoy, Terrence (2021-10-26). "Why men's faces look the way they do". Washington Post. ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 2023-08-07.
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