Exhibition

Mummies

Mummies invites visitors to meet individuals intentionally mummified in South America, Egypt, France, or elsewhere. The tour combines human remains, mediation devices, and scientific inquiries to showcase the diversity of mummification practices and question the ethical, heritage, and symbolic issues linked to their s...

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Paris

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Venue

Musée de l'Homme

Paris

Dates

19 November 2025 to 25 May 2026

Ended

Booking

Available on Tiqets

Overview

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Momies opens up a broad perspective on mummification, ranging from the history of practices, science of the body, to contemporary questioning on the conservation of human remains.

Editorial context

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On Expo Paris, Mummies is most useful when it is read not only as a single event but as part of a broader route through Musée de l'Homme, where exhibitions, artists and editorial themes can be compared quickly in English. This page becomes easier to place when it is connected to History.

For an English reader, the point of this page is also practical: it clarifies the venue, dates and booking context, then opens clear paths toward related exhibitions, artists and subjects so that the visit does not remain isolated. 3 related exhibition pages are already close enough to help compare tone, period or venue.

Why go

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Editorial angle

Momies opens up a broad perspective on mummification, ranging from the history of practices, science of the body, to contemporary questioning on the conservation of human remains.

The highlight lies in the way the exhibition crosses emotion, anthropology, and ethical reflection, without limiting itself to the spectacular or solely to fascination for the preserved bodies.

The exhibition shifts the gaze: the mummy no longer appears as an exotic or spectacular figure, but as a human, ritual, and scientific testament inscribed within multiple histories.

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Momies opens up a broad perspective on mummification, ranging from the history of practices, science of the body, to contemporary questioning on the conservation of human remains. The highlight lies in the way the exhibition crosses emotion, anthropology, and ethical reflection, without limiting itself to the spectacular or solely to fascination for the preserved bodies.