In October of 2008, the Dallas Museum of Art hosted Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs. Quite a bit of work was done in preparation, including building this microsite. The goals of the site were to 1) educate museum visitors about the objects in the exhibition and 2) to provide a list of “must see” objects in the museum’s collections seeing that there would be a large number of first time visitors.
The main features of this project were collecting information about the collection, creating the zoom-able flash views of the exhibition objects and creating a series of short videos to promote the exhibition.
I had the incredible opportunity of interviewing Zahi Hawass, the Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities and frequent Discovery Channel personality. I incorporated the Zahi interview with file footage from the 1922 Howard Carter discovery of the tomb. We also did a separate series of video pieces with Curator Anne Bromberg who is one of the most fascinating individuals I know.
The project was a huge success, at its peak attracting about 1,000 unique visits per day.