With more than 25 years of history and located two blocks from La Pedrera, the Egyptian Museum is one of those Barcelona gems that should not be missed. Before the closure forced by the collective quarantine, the museum has just opened its app for free , one of the best tools to get to know it from the inside. Access is as easy as, once installed, click on Visit to the Museum and access with this password that has become the mantra of all these last days: YoMeQuedoEnCasa. The application is available in four languages: Catalan, Spanish, French and English.
What awaits the visitor? A walk through the two floors of the museum thanks to photographs, texts, videos and an audio guide that walks the reader through the different areas of the Pharaonic period, starting with the arts of mummification and continuing with objects that help to understand the concept. of the Egyptians from beyond, the arts and crafts of this sophisticated ancient society and its impressive catalog of traditions and gods. Among the jewels in the museum's collection, founded in 1992 by Jordi Clos (brother of the former minister and former mayor of Barcelona, Joan Clos, and hotel entrepreneur at the head of the Derby Hotels group), pieces by such iconic pharaohs as Ramses III or Cleopatra stand out. VII .
The jewels of the museum
Among the curiosities are the pieces dedicated to cosmetics . The inhabitants of Ancient Egypt were smug and took care of themselves, as demonstrated by a cute container for storing alabaster kohol - its star product, in Egyptian mesdemet - from the time of the Eighteenth Dynasty (between 1550-1307 BC). And it is that ointments, perfumes and eye makeup were products widely used throughout society. The documents of the time indicate that the Egyptians took very seriously issues that today continue to concern us all such as the elimination of body odor, hydration of the skin, care of wrinkles and freckles, prevention of hair loss. ...
Eroticism was also very present in his day to day . The Egyptian Museum has in its collection, of more than a thousand pieces, several erotic stone figurines from the Ptolemaic period (304-30 BC), when representations showing men with hypertrophic genitalia, isolated or in joint sexual activity were common.
Although if we talk about Egypt, one of the most fascinating aspects of its culture is its conception and relationship with death . For this you have to go up to the first floor of the museum. There, the app directs the virtual visitor to two areas, one dedicated to funeral equipment and the other to the gods. The Egyptian tombs are the true houses of eternity of the deceased, explains the audio guide, and this is demonstrated by the innumerable pyramids, mastabas and cave tombs found thousands of years later. The mummy is the centerpiece: it was protected by sarcophagi of different materials and shapes, and amulets of all kinds were placed between its bandages. A safe-conduct to the long-awaited world of the grave and that can now be visited virtually.
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