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Nagano Prefectural Art Museum has announced that its special exhibition 'Ancient Egypt', drawn from the Brooklyn Museum collection, has welcomed 50,000 visitors. The museum said the milestone was reached on Aug. 7, and marked with a presentation to a family from Ueda City in Nagano Prefecture.
According to the museum, Vice Director Hayakawa presented the family with a commemorative gift package that included the exhibition’s official catalogue and a tote bag. The announcement was made in Japanese on the museum’s social media account, where the institution also thanked visitors for helping the exhibition reach the 50,000-person mark.
The exhibition’s full Japanese title, 'Brooklyn Museum Collection: Special Exhibition Ancient Egypt', indicates that the presentation is based on objects from the Brooklyn Museum and focuses on ancient Egyptian material. No further curatorial details, venue changes, or programme extensions were included in the source announcement.
Nagano Prefectural Art Museum, based in Nagano, Japan, regularly uses its social channels to share attendance updates and exhibition news. In this case, the post functioned as both a milestone notice and a brief report on the visitors recognized at the museum for helping bring the show to the round-number threshold.
The museum’s message did not provide an updated schedule for the exhibition or any additional interpretive notes about the works on view. It did, however, make clear that the 50,000-visitor mark had been reached on the day of the announcement, with the celebratory presentation made to the visiting Sugisaki family from Ueda City.
