London to host Tutankhamun experience

Tutankhamun: The Immersive Exhibition is set to launch at Immerse LDN, on the Excel London Waterfront in March 2025.

Endorsed by the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo and created in collaboration with Egyptologists and historians, the exhibition is set across six galleries and features one of Europe’s largest immersive video mapping rooms with 8-metre-high projections.

Visitors will enter via an infinity room featuring a walking Anubis, before exploring stories about Egyptian civilization alongside replicas and artefacts.

The experience continues with a 30 minute immersive movie telling the story of Tutankhamun’s tomb, ’narrated’ by Howard Carter, (9 May 1874 – 2 March 1939) the British archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the intact tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, the best-preserved tomb found in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings.

Other features include a VR experience taking visitors into the ’Egyptian afterlife’, a hologram presentation and an AR walkthrough of the Valley of the Kings.

"This exhibition presents a blend of rich historical narrative with cutting-edge technology, including a 360-degree video projection at 8 metres high, a world premiere hologram showing the entire mummification process and a VR and digital metaverse experience" said James Cassidy, president of FKP Scorpio Entertainment.

Tutankhamun was last in London in 1972, when The Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibition was held at the British Museumfrom March to December. It was the most popular exhibition in the museum’s history, with over 1.6 million visitors.