The Egyptian gallery of the Oriental-Institute-Museum

After a three-year closure, the completely renovated Egyptian gallery of th e Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago has reopened. Disp laying a portion of the approximately 25,000 objects in the Institute's Egy ptian collection, the gallery now gives pride of place to a colossal statue of King Tutankhamun that, at 5.3m tall, towers over the entrance. The gall ery's introductory section on chronology presents the most characteristic o bjects of each period. Curators arranged the rest of the gallery thematical ly, with the major subdivisions being daily life and funerary beliefs. The exhibition encourages visitors to make connections between the ancient and modern world.