DALLAS – Tickets for the King Tut exhibit opening this fall at the Dallas Museum of Art are on sale.
The exhibit, “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs,” is making an encore visit to the United States after a two-year tour that drew nearly 4 million visitors ended in September 2007.
The exhibit will open at the Dallas Museum of Art on Oct. 3. It will run there through May 17, 2009, and then travel to two yet-to-be-named cities.
There will be more than 130 artifacts from the tomb of Egypt's King Tut, including some artifacts that are new to the exhibit and have not been seen before outside of Egypt, according to a Dallas Museum of Art's news release.
For adults, tickets range from $27.50 on weekdays to $32.50 Friday through Sunday and on holidays. For children, tickets are $16.50.
Details at (877) 888-8587 or visit ticketmaster.com or dallasmuseumofart.org/tut.
Put your hometown
in the spotlight
NEW YORK – Are you proud of your hometown? Want to show it off to the world? Do you think your neighborhood makes as good a travel destination as any place out there?
GOOD magazine is looking for a few great places to visit, and the editors are looking for videos created by regular folks about what there is to see and do in their hometowns. “We're asking you to serve as a tourist bureau for your neighborhood,” the editors write in the July/August issue. “Tell us about your favorite local spot, or better yet, take us on a video tour of it.”
Deadline for entries is Aug. 11. Videos must be less than two minutes long and smaller than 100 megabytes. Entries will be posted on the magazine's Web site and the “most illuminating tour guide” will win two domestic plane tickets to anywhere JetBlue flies, the magazine promises. Details at goodmagazine.com/section/projects.
Park gives sneak peek
at anniversary events
ASHEVILLE, N.C. – The Great Smoky Mountains National Park has unveiled an interactive Web site giving viewers a virtual tour of activities planned to celebrate the park's 75th anniversary next year.
The site at greatsmokies75th.org invites visitors to share photos and stories of their experiences in the country's most-visited national park.
The site also provides a history lesson on the creation of the park, which straddles the North Carolina-Tennessee line, and efforts to protect it. The park was founded June 15, 1934.
Travel deals
Stay at any Hilton-owned property, including Hampton Inn, Doubletree or Embassy Suites, by Aug. 31 and receive one free ticket to a Live Nation concert. Deal extends to lawn tickets at select concerts at any of Live Nation's 32 amphitheaters. Value varies. Register at hiltonhhonors.com/rockandrollsummer.
– Compiled from news service reports
