Exhibition - 'In the Temple of the Female Pharaoh: Hatshepsut and Howard Carter'
Discoverer of Tutankhamun comes to Bolton as the centrepiece of new exhibition.
The newly conserved 130-year-old watercolour painting by artist and archaeologist, Howard Carter is to go on temporary display in the north for the first time at Bolton Museum.
It is on loan from the Egypt Exploration Society in London.
The watercolour painting consists of a scene from the Chapel of Thutmose I, in the temple of female pharaoh, Hatshepsut.
It will go on display from Saturday 1 March 2025 in the Bolton’s Egypt galleries as part of the new exhibition “In the Temple of the Female Pharaoh: Howard Carter and Hatshepsut”.