INSIDE: Tut’s Treasure Tour

• July 12, 2009

An Egyptian installation crew member doing the condition report on the huge stone sculpture of the head of Akhenaten. Tuesday, July 21 at 10 p.m.

This program gives viewers an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the unseen world of one of the greatest museum shows of all time as it travels on tour. Cameras reveal the choreographed chaos of taking apart the show, from the de-installation team that works under merciless deadlines to the deconstruction of the boy king’s temporary palace. In the dead of the night, the convoy of these priceless antiquities makes its secretive trip to Philadelphia, but there are only weeks until opening and the race is on to set up the show.