Museum Hack Sets New Dates for THE DISCOVERY OF KING TUT Tours

THE DISCOVERY OF KING TUT (at Premier Exhibitions 5th Avenue, 417 5th Ave. at 37th St., NYC) has announced a new date and updated schedule for Museum Hack's upcoming tours of the exhibition.

In addition to the previously announced February 14 & March 13 tours, Museum Hack will offer tours of THE DISCOVERY OF KING TUT on April 10. Tours on these dates are now scheduled to take place at 11AM, 12PM, and 1PM.

Video of the first Museum Hack tour of THE DISCOVERY OF KING TUT is available below!

Want to know how King Tut really died? How about an in-depth explanation of mummification... told through rap? Museum Hack guides turn the traditional museum experience on its head with tours that are out-of-the-box, engaging, and often risqué... the perfect cure for "museum fatigue."

Museum Hack tours will be free to exhibition ticket holders, and conducted on a first come, first served basis.

THE DISCOVERY OF KING TUT is the thrilling recreation of Tutankhamen's tomb and the treasures found within, taking visitors back 3,000 years and brilliantly illuminating the world's most legendary archaeological find like never before.

THE DISCOVERY OF KING TUT is located at Premier Exhibitions 5th Avenue, 417 5th Avenue (at 37th St.) in New York City. For tickets and more information, go to www.TUTNYC.com. Museum Hack tours will take place on February 14, March 13 & April 10, 2016, at 11AM,12PM, and 1PM. More information about Museum Hack is available at www.MuseumHack.com.

Museum Hack leads renegade tours of the world's best museums. These tours include the untold stories of the art and artists, juicy gossip about the museum and activities in the galleries like "Buy, Burn, Steal" and "Yearbook Tags." Every tour is unique and customized on the fly to include the pieces the Museum Hack guides and their guests care most about. The overall theme is to make tours fun and engaging, and to help overcome museum fatigue - a real problem, where visitors get tired and bored when they visit museums. Museum Hack offers public tours at four major museums in the US, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, the American Museum of Natural History in NYC, the National Gallery of Art in DC, and the de Young Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in SF.

Seen by millions of visitors worldwide, THE DISCOVERY OF KING TUT takes visitors back more than 3,000 years to trace the story of the boy king who reigned for a decade and died suddenly at age 19. This thrillingly unique experience explores the legendary tomb and its treasures as they were at the exact moment of their discovery. Visitors can feel the rush of excitement as they step into a moment only ever witnessed by Howard Carter's excavation team, view more than 1000 precisely crafted replicas and reconstructions and discover the story behind one of the most iconic moments in history.

The tomb's magnificent burial goods have been reproduced exactly down to the finest detail by expert Egyptian craftsmen and renowned Egyptologists. These exquisitely crafted replicas and reconstructions, allow visitors to step into the wonder of the discovery as if the original excavation in the Valley of the Kings has been reopened. Crucially, the exhibition also brings together a collection that can only be seen separately elsewhere, even in Egypt: because the king's treasures are kept in the Cairo Museum. In addition, Tutankhamun's beautifully painted tomb in the Valley of the Kings has been stripped of everything but his mummy, the outer coffin and the stone sarcophagus. By contrast, the exhibition experience culminates in exact reconstructions of three chambers from Tutankhamun's tomb, revealing themselves just as the discoverers saw them. A radioplay-like audio tour based on Howard Carter's diaries, video documentaries, extensive texts and object descriptions and unhindered access to the objects together provide an exciting, as well as informative, experience for all the senses. THE DISCOVERY OF KING TUT is scheduled to run through May 1, 2016. Tickets are on sale now at www.TUTNYC.com.

PREMIER EXHIBITIONS 5th AVENUE is a state-of-the-art exhibition and special events center located at 417 5th Avenue between 37th & 38th Streets. With a goal of bringing the love of learning to life, Premier Exhibitions 5th Avenue offers exciting, informative and behind-the-scenes experiences through a diverse range of museum quality exhibitions. In Spring 2015, the center created and debuted SNL: The Exhibition. This unprecedented opportunity allows visitors to lift the curtain on "Saturday Night Live" for a first-hand journey through the characters, stories, cast and writers that have entertained and amused generations for the last four decades. For more information please visit www.snltheexhibition.com.

Premier Exhibitions, Inc. located in Atlanta, Georgia, is a foremost presenter of museum quality exhibitions throughout the world. Premier is a recognized leader in developing and displaying unique exhibitions for education and entertainment, including Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, BODIES...The Exhibition, Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs, Pompeii The Exhibition, Dinosaurs Unearthed, Dinosaurs Alive!, Extreme Dinosaurs and Real Pirates in partnership with National Geographic, as well as Saturday Night Live: The Exhibition. The success of Premier Exhibitions, Inc. lies in its ability to produce, manage, and market exhibitions. Additional information about Premier Exhibitions, Inc. is available at the Company's website www.PremierExhibitions.com.

Premier Exhibitions presents THE DISCOVERY OF KING TUT in partnership with SC Exhibitions, a division of Semmel Concerts Entertainment, a leading European live entertainment producer. THE DISCOVERY OF KING TUT is a project by SC Exhibitions, conceived and curated by a team of leading European museum specialists. The scientific circle consulting the exhibition and its international programming consists of Wolfgang Wettengel, Wilfried Seipel, Jaromir Malek and Zahi Hawass. The exhibition supports several projects in Egypt, and contributed to the renovation of the Tutankhamun galleries in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. THE DISCOVERY OF KING TUT is the official replica exhibition endorsed by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities.