ROSICRUCIAN PLANETARIUM, SAN JOSE. Tombs, mummies and all sorts of ancient Egyptian artifacts await you at Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum & Planetarium, one of the tourist favorites of San Jose. This place is located in the beautiful Rosicrucian Park, with palm trees and Egyptian-style buildings everywhere. The museum itself contains an extensive array of artifacts, jewelry and displays of Egyptian antiquity. The tour in the cavernous tomb below the museum is especially replete with information and entertainment. Through the interactive displays, you will get an in-depth look at the nature of life in ancient Egypt. The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum began with one small artifact, a Sekhmet (lion goddess) statue, which stood on the desk of H. Spencer Lewis, the founder of the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, which was founded in 1915, is a philosophical and educational public benefit organization. Rosicrucian students study, along with other subjects, the wisdom of the ancient mystery schools, including those of ancient Egypt. In the 1920s AMORC supported the excavations of the Egypt Exploration Society in Tell el-Amarna (Akhetaten), the city of the Pharaoh Akhnaton. In gratitude, the Egypt Exploration Society donated several artifacts from their finds to AMORC. H. Spencer Lewis encouraged members to add to this collection, which they did. Today the Museum, with over 4,000 artifacts, houses the largest collection of authentic ancient Egyptian artifacts on display in Western North America. The Rosicrucian Planetarium presents the following: Journey to the Stars. Featuring extraordinary images from telescopes on the ground and in space and stunning, never-before-seen visualizations of physics based simulations, the dazzling Journey to the Stars launches guests through time and space to experience the life and death of stars, including our own nurturing Sun.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 11:06:54 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015