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Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum



This Museum holds over 4,000 artifacts, making it the largest collection of authentic ancient Egyptian artifacts on display in Western North America!! The Museum brings over 100,000 guests per year, 26,000 of which are school children

Located at: 1660 Park Avenue  San Jose CA 95191

 Museum Hours: Wednesday - Thursday: 9:00am - 5:00pm  Friday: 9:00am - 8:00pm  Saturday and Sunday: 10am - 6:00pm  Monday - Tuesday: Closed

School and Group Tours: Call 408-947-3632

Cost of Field Trip: Bus transportation- $10 per child $9.00 general admission



Special Event listings from the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum website:

<span style="color: #8f8f0c; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Calling all adventurers! The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum presents its Junior Archaeologist training program for young adventurers ages 5 to 17. This program includes behind the scenes training, hands-on learning opportunities, and the most fun graduation ceremony this side of the Nile! <span style="color: #8f8f0c; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">The Junior Archaeologist program is free with any Friend of the Museum Family Membership.

 <span style="color: #8f8f0c; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Join us on Friday Nights to see how history really “comes alive” at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum. Enjoy browsing through our outstanding museum collection or participate in the variety of special activities offered during our extended hours from 5:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. Each Friday Night will focus on a particular theme with activities ranging from arts and crafts, interactive workshops, Evening Lectures, special gallery talks, and guided tours.

<span style="color: #54549e; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">“Last admittance into the museum is a half-hour before closing. Backpacks and large bags are not permitted inside the museum. No video, tripod or flash photography is permitted inside the museum. Non-flash photography is allowed inside the museum.”
 * <span style="color: #54549e; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">PLEASE NOTE!!! **


 * <span style="color: #54549e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">Our MP3 audio tour is now available for download. If you have a portable MP3 device you can download our audio tour before your arrival to the museum. [|Download the entire audio tour here.] **



1.“Pre-field trip” activity

The pre-field trip activity that will be done will include a trip to the library for some research. Students will be given three websites they can look at to get information on Ancient Egypt. One of these websites is an extra resource, the website of the museum we will be visiting the following day. Students will be required to write down five interesting things they learned about Egyptian history from the websites they searched.

2. Inquiry-based activity that students will complete during the trip

An Inquiry-based activity the students will complete during the trip is to record and explain the steps of the mummification process. Students must take detailed notes at the museum and understand the entire process in preparation for their post-field trip activity.

3. “Post-field trip” activity

The post-field trip activity the class will do is mummification. Students will bring in stuffed animals and perform mummifications based off of the notes they took at the museum. **