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The Valley of the Queens – a lecture by Christian Greco, Director of the Egyptian Museum in Turin

3,000 years ago, in ancient Egypt, it wasn’t unusual for women to rule – and some became all powerful – like Cleopatra and Nefertiti. In anticipation of International Women’s Day, join us on a journey meeting the Queens of Egypt and discovering the significant contribution of the Italian Mission to the Valley of the Queens, where Italian archaeologists recovered some burials belonging to members of the royal families of the New Kingdom, like the gorgeous one built for Nefertari, the “Great Royal Spouse” of king Ramses II and one of the most influential women of ancient Egypt

The lecture, held by Christian Greco, Director of the acclaimed Museo Egizio of Turin, will also focus on the little know necropolis of Deir el-Medina, where the tomb of the architect Kha and his wife Merit was still untouched when discovered by the Italians.

The program will be introduced by Kathryn Keane, Director of the National Geographic Museum in Washington DC, where the exhibit Queens of Egypt, organized with the support of the Museo Egizio of Turin, will be on view from March 1st to September 2nd, 2019.

 

 

LOCATION 
Embassy of Italy
3000 Whitehaven St NW
Washington, DC 20008

 

Please Note

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DOORS OPEN 30 MINUTES PRIOR EVENT START-TIME

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Kathryn Keane 

 

keaneKathryn Keane is Vice President of Public Programming at the National Geographic Society as well as Director of the National Geographic Museum

She manages a creative team of designers, curators and producers who develop unique and award-winning live programming, events and exhibitions that have become popular experience-based platforms for storytelling, audience engagement and educational outreach to millions of visitors each year.

As Director of the National Geographic Museum, Keane manages the museum and its visitor programs as well as overseeing and directing all aspects of National Geographic exhibitions, including exhibition development and partnerships. In addition, Keane oversees the development and implementation of original traveling exhibitions, which are designed to travel to museums, science centers, zoos and aquariums in the United States and around the world.

Keane joined the Society in 2006 as Director of Traveling Exhibitions and was responsible for overseeing the development of museum exhibitions that featured National Geographic photography and content. 

The National Geographic Museum is a popular destination for tourists, residents and school groups in Washington, D.C. The exhibitions regularly feature the best of National Geographic history, talent, content, multimedia and photography and showcase the Society’s impact-driven nonprofit work in experiential and interactive ways. In the last decade, more than 40 million people have visited a National Geographic exhibition in over 40 countries.  

Prior to joining National Geographic, Keane served as deputy to Director David Levy at the Corcoran Gallery of Art for more than a decade, overseeing the development of exhibitions and initiatives during a particularly dynamic time in that museum’s history.

Keane graduated with a B.A. in English from Georgetown University.  

 

Christian Greco

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Christian Greco has been Director of the Museo Egizio since 2014. He managed a refurbishment of the museum building and a renovation of its galleries, completed on March 31st 2015, whereby the Museo Egizio was transformed from an antiquities museum into an archaeological museum.Trained mainly in the Netherlands, he is an Egyptologist with vast experience working in museums. He curated many exhibitions and curatorial projects in the Netherlands(Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden; Kunsthal, Rotterdam; Teylers Museum, Haarlem), Japan (Okinawa, Fukushima, Takasaki and Okayama museums), Finland (Vapriikki Museum, Tampere), Spain (La Caixa Foundation) and Scotland (National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh).While at the head of the Museo Egizio, he has set up important international collaborations with museums, universities and research institutes all across the world.Greco is also a dedicated teacher. He is currently teaching courses in the material culture of ancient Egypt and museology at the Università di Torino e Pavia, the Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, the Scuola IUSS in Pavia. He is also featured as a lecturer in many master programs on Museum Management and Communication, where he shares his work and research experience.Fieldwork is particularly prominent in Greco’s curriculum. For several years, he was a member of the Epigraphic Survey of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in Luxor. Since 2011 he has been co-director of the Italian-Dutch archeological mission at Saqqara.Greco’s published record includes many scholarly essays and writings for the non-specialist public in several languages. He has also been a keynote speaker at a number of Egyptology and museology international conferences.Since 2015 he has been a member of the management board of the MANN (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli).

 

 

  • Organizzato da: IIC Washington