# The British Museum opens Treasures of Tutankhamun as a mass public exhibition

Date: 1972

## The fact

On 30 March 1972 the British Museum exhibition opened, a completed public-access instrument that let millions see objects otherwise in Cairo. Twin of the rent-split row.

## Context

Queues in London are not Egyptian school access. They are still a shared cultural-access event of high confidence.

[Tutankhamun](/people/tutankhamun) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official archive, museum, or agency page and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: British Museum (https://www.britishmuseum.org/; British Museum).

## Significance

A 1972 exhibition opening is a public-access path, not a restitution.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is [social-cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is social-cohesion. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Tutankhamun: https://factrail.ai/people/tutankhamun

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tutankhamun
- https://www.britishmuseum.org/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/tut-1972-london-show