Queensland Museum: Mummy Exhibit & Turtle Hatchery

We were so excited to find out that the Queensland Museum had an exhibit on Egyptian Mummies. Derek has been doing a lot of reading about mummies since we have arrived in Australia so we were very excited to see the exhibit. The exhibit had just opened and is on loan from the British Museum.  We learned about the lives of 6 people who lived in Egypt between 3,000 and 1,800 years ago. The latest CT scanning technology was amazing! It allowed us to see under the cloth wrappings to see the bones of the mummies. 

Canopic jars where the organs were kept once they were removed from the bodies.

A model of Ancient Egypt beer making process. We were excited to take this picture for Matt to show him how beer was made in Ancient Egypt.

2 bracelets that Rylie liked that were worn on one of the women in Egypt

The kids were excited to receive these headpieces after going through the exhibit! Rylie bought a Queen Nephertti pen and Derek bought a small bust of King Tut.

After checking out the Mummy exhibit we went exploring the rest of the museum, which is completely free!! We happen to get in line to see the Loggerhead turtle hatchery. It was only at the museum for 3 days so we were pretty lucky to be able to see it. After an explanation of the turtles we got to see some babies that had just hatched out of the eggs. They were minutes old and so tiny and cute. 

We were really impressed with the Queensland Museum. The kids got to touch a turtle and a 5 year old crocodile. There were some great exhibits about the diversity of animals in the state of Queensland. We will definitely be back to explore more of the museum. It is great that it is within walking distance to our apartment.

There was a hands on exhibit with a collection of ocean items gathered from the Great Barrier Reef. It was neat to see all sorts of coral and sea stars etc. Rylie loved this big sea star.