A notable activity took place in 1999 when the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum started the traveling exhibition "Women of the Nile" accompanied by many lectures. "Women of the Nile" travelled across the United States of America and Canada, and continued until 2001. From 2000 to 2002, a stone figure from the collection of
Cleopatra VII was displayed in Rome, London, and Chicago in similar exhibitions. The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum's child
mummy traveled to
Stanford University in nearby
Palo Alto on May 6, 2005, to be studied under
CT scans and other high-resolution methods of remote sensing, in a collaboration between the museum,
Silicon Graphics, and
Stanford University Hospital and the
NASA Biocomputational Lab. The results were released at the 75th Anniversary of the Museum on August 6, 2005, with detailed scans. One of the scanning images won the Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge 2006 co-sponsored by the
National Science Foundation and
Science. In November 2017, x-ray images of the mummy were released that provide a 3D visualization of the girl's remains. A statue of
Taweret, the ancient Egyptian
hippopotamus-like
goddess of pregnant women and childbirth, once stood at the entrance, but has been moved to the side. Since 2004, the Museum has been completely renovated, with the following Gallery themes: •
Afterlife and Rock Cut Tomb • Daily Life and Other Cultures •
Kingship and
Palace •
Temple (
Sekhmet) and
Akhenaten's
Amarna period • Rotating Exhibits: Since 2015: The Rosicrucian Alchemy Exhibit File:Mummy-UpperClassEgyptianMale-SaitePeriod RosicrucianMuseum.png|An upper-class Egyptian male, often referred as "
Usermontu" File:Early 18th dynasty coffin REM RC 1678 1.JPG|Early 18th dynasty coffin File:Baboon mummy at Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum.JPG|Baboon mummy. There is in fact no baboon inside; the mummy is formed around a ceramic jar. The museum also holds a 1.5 million-year-old stone hand ax, but it is not exhibited to the public.
Rock-cut tomb replica The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum contains a composite replica of an ancient Egyptian
rock-cut tomb, based on photos and sketches taken by Rosicrucian expeditions to tombs at
Beni Hasan, to give guests the experience of being in such an excavation. Below are photographs of the interior of the replica tomb, largely containing scenes from the
Book of the Dead. The dark interior of the tomb replica is evident. Image:Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum 1.jpg Image:Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum 2.jpg Image:Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum 3.jpg Image:Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum 4.jpg Image:Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum 5.jpg Image:Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum 6.jpg Image:Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum 7.jpg File:Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum 11.JPG File:Rock cut tomb.JPG
The Rosicrucian Alchemy Exhibit Beginning in 2015, for the 100th Anniversary of the incorporation of AMORC in America, which owns and operates the Museum, the museum's Rotating Exhibits Gallery became The Rosicrucian
Alchemy Exhibit. The highlights of the collection were put on display in this exhibit. This exhibit, curated by the alchemist Dennis William Hauck, features a journey through the seven stages of the alchemical process, a meditation chamber featuring the
Azoth of the Philosophers and a recorded guided meditation, and a full-size reproduction of an alchemist's workshop. There is also a reproduction of the
Ripley Scroll with illustrative commentary. The Exhibit forms the kernel of what will be the first alchemy museum in the United States, and the largest in the world. It will be housed in the present "Rose-Croix University International" building at
Rosicrucian Park. The RCUI Building also contains a working alchemy lab. On June 22, 2024, the museum unveiled the Thoth AI, a fully integrated artificial intelligence persona modeled after the ancient Egyptian god Thoth. This innovative addition enhances the educational experience by providing interactive guidance and insights, bridging ancient wisdom with modern technology. ==See also==