Cleopatra’s Needle | The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2013/cleopatras-needle
This exhibition celebrates the Central Park Conservancy’s upcoming conservation on the obelisk of Thutmose III, popularly known as „Cleopatra’s Needle.“ Relying primarily on the Metropolitan’s own collection, enhanced with several important loans from local museums and private lenders, it explores the meaning of obelisks in ancient Egyptian divine and funerary cults and considers how these massive monuments were created and erected.
Objects Exhibition Objects The exhibition is made possible by Dorothy and Lewis B.
