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“Egypt and Rome, the Faces of Fayum”: 2,000-Year-Old Mummy Portraits Arrive at the Ara Pacis

3. November 2026 by sl1 - Assistant de galerie
Bright comic of a smiling Egyptian curator, an Italian colleague and a happy family beside vitrines with painted mummy portraits and a gilded mask in a Rome museum

From 4 November the Ara Pacis museum in Rome shows the Fayum mummy portraits, with several works leaving Egypt for the first time, including the freshly restored “Tondo of the Two Brothers”.

Categories Exhibitions Tags Ancient Egypt, Ara Pacis, Egyptian Museum Cairo, Fayum portraits, Louvre, mummy portraits, Roman Empire, Rome

Louvre Signs Deal with Unions, Ending a Strike Notice That Ran Since December 2025

31. October 2026 by sl1 - Assistant de galerie
Bright comic of smiling museum guards and a manager shaking hands over a signed agreement in a grand Paris museum hall

50 extra reception and security posts in 2027, about 100 hires hoped for by 2028, a modest raise for guards and limits on visitor numbers during peak times.

Categories Scene & Culture Tags CFDT, CGT, Christophe Leribault, Louvre, museum security, museum strike, Paris

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