{"id":230342,"date":"2010-01-26T02:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T07:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-1253445665835337780"},"modified":"2010-01-26T02:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T07:48:00","slug":"museum-lego-museum-in-cairo-to-encourage-chidlren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/230342","title":{"rendered":"Museum: Lego museum in Cairo to encourage chidlren"},"content":{"rendered":"

Al Ahram Weekly<\/a> (Nevine El-Aref)<\/p>\n

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To encourage children to explore the mysterious world of their ancient ancestors, the Egyptian Museum in Cairo has opened Egypt’s first-ever children’s Lego museum. Nevine El-Aref recaptures her childhood<\/p>\n

A touring exhibition that has been travelling to museums and science centres across the globe has landed a permanent home at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square.<\/p>\n

In “Secrets of the Pharaohs”, Egypt’s ancient monuments have been rebuilt in the basement exhibition area of the museum — entirely in Lego.<\/p>\n

Scale models of some of the nation’s best-loved ancient buildings have been refashioned in large, colourful Lego bricks and are on display at the cool-lit basement gallery. Here is the Great Sphinx sitting in front of the three Giza Pyramids; here a team of ancient builders construct a temple while artisans decorate its walls and a scribe squats with a sheaf of papers to record the scene. Here is the mask of the boy king Tutankhamun, as well as some of his funerary collection.<\/p>\n

The exhibition combines the fun of the famous Lego building blocks that everyone played with as children and the colourful and amazing history of ancient Egypt.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) To encourage children to explore the mysterious world of their ancient ancestors, the Egyptian Museum in Cairo has opened Egypt’s first-ever children’s Lego museum. Nevine El-Aref recaptures her childhood A touring exhibition that has been travelling to museums and science centres across the globe has landed a permanent home at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}