Major Tutankhamun exhibition heads to Birmingham and visitors are invited to travel back in time

An award-winning Tutankhamun immersive experience will head to Birmingham's NEC Campus on 19 June 2026, for a limited 12-week-run.

This follows a run in cities such as Madrid, Hamburg, Cairo, Sao Paulo, Barcelona, Vienna, Malmö, London, Glasgow and Stockholm.

The exhibition is one that invites people to step back in time to learn more about ancient Egypt. It will focus on the the myths and mysteries surrounding Pharaoh Tutankhamun.

The waitlist for Tutankhamun: The Immersive Exhibition, Birmingham, is now open and history fans are being urged to sign up for exclusive pre-sale access ahead of tickets going on general on sale on Tuesday 21 April.

Tickets will be priced from £22 for adults and from £15.50 for children.

Sarah Harvey, Deputy CEO at the NEC, said: “We can’t wait to bring Tutankhamun: The Immersive Exhibition to the NEC Campus this summer. As the Nation’s Experience Capital, we’re always exploring ways to bring exciting new content to our venues, and this exhibition fits perfectly with that ambition.”

The exhibition has been created in collaboration with Egyptologists and historians.

The Birmingham edition of Tutankhamun: The Immersive Exhibition will transport visitors through six creatively designed galleries that delve into the fascinating lives of ancient Egyptians.

It will offer a plethora of stand-out features such as, immersive video mapping rooms with projections on 8-metre-high surfaces.

Guests will enter via an interactive walkway which leads into a museal area presenting captivating background stories about Egyptian civilization alongside carefully curated replicas and artefacts.

Following this, the experience continues into a huge immersive video mapping room which recounts the rich history of Egypt.

The moment of the discovery of the tomb is described in a recorded interview of Howard Carter, the famous British archaeologist will also feature.

After this visitors, will also embark on a 360-degree seated virtual reality experience, journeying into the mystical Egyptian afterlife before stepping into an interactive digital metaverse walk-through of the Valley of the Kings, exploring Howard Carter's basecamp, and reliving the monumental moment of the 1922 discovery in its full glory.

At the end of the experience, every visitor will be able to capture a memento of their day with a photograph in the AI photobooth where they will be transformed into a citizen of ancient Egypt.

The approximate 85-minute journey through ancient Egypt's rich history and mythology features a wealth of educational and informative displays, historical documents, original artefacts and replicas from ancient Egypt, and has been designed with children, families, schools and history enthusiasts in mind. The soundtrack has been composed specifically for the experience and is performed by an orchestra.