Image: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Tickets are now on sale for 'Treasures of the Pharaohs', a forthcoming presentation announced by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The museum’s email notice promotes the exhibition with images of ancient Egyptian objects and directs readers to its ticketing page, indicating that public access planning is underway for the new show.
The announcement comes from the institution behind the de Young in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, both of which are open Tuesday through Sunday. The email does not state in the excerpt which of those venues will host 'Treasures of the Pharaohs', so the ticketing notice should be read as an institutional announcement rather than a venue-confirmation. What is clear is that the museums are beginning to sell admission for a project centered on ancient Egyptian material.
The visual materials in the email point to the kind of objects likely to frame the presentation. One featured image shows the outer anthropoid coffin lid of Thuya, identified as coming from Luxor, Valley of the Kings, Tomb of Yuya and Thuya (KV 46), and dated to the New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, in the reign of Amenhotep III. The coffin lid is described as wood with gilded stucco and inlays of blue glass, obsidian, light blue, dark blue and red glass.
A second image highlights the 'Necklace of Osorkon II', described as Egyptian, from Tanis, tomb of Osorkon II, and dated to the Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 22. The necklace is listed as gold and lapis lazuli. Both objects are credited to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, underscoring the depth of the holdings connected to the project and the prominence of museum loans or reproductions featured in the announcement.
The email provides a direct ticketing link and presents the sale as an active advance step rather than a general teaser. No opening date, checklist, curatorial statement or installation details are included in the source text, so those specifics cannot be confirmed from the announcement alone. Still, the material establishes that 'Treasures of the Pharaohs' is being positioned as a major ancient-world exhibition with prestige objects at its center.
For the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the announcement extends the institution’s outreach to audiences for both of its museum sites while keeping the focus on a distinct upcoming exhibition. The source material is limited to the ticketing notice and image captions, but those captions alone situate 'Treasures of the Pharaohs' within a lineage of royal and funerary Egyptian artifacts, including the coffin of Thuya and the necklace of Osorkon II.
