What age would you find it appropriate to show a child an Egyptian Mummy in a museum

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Bit of a strange question but just as the title says really!

I’d say any age. It’s artistic and cultural. Thinking that death is horrifying or grim is very much a learnt perspective.

I used to love seeing them from very young! Depends on the child really. 8-10 ish?

Literally any age

I took my 3 and 5 year old to the British museum last summer. 3 year old
Oblivious. 5 year old fascinated for 5 mins then never mentioned it again.

5ish? Mine saw mummies from that age. But tbh I wouldn’t have thought twice about showing them at a younger age.

Young kids love things like mummy's. They also seem to love and squeal in equal measure about brains being extracted through the nose. Lol.

I think they do Eygptians in year 3, so 7-8? Although any age would be ok in a museum.

I would take the kids at any age

Any age.

Any age. I was obsessed about 8 though.

There’s no inappropriate age

I've taken my youngest GC who was 3. My middle one went around 5, she was obsessed with grave yards as well. It depends on the child.

I think I was about 5 when my dad took me to see them at the British Museum.

Maybe 3? I don’t thing they’d be very interested before that.

With the parents consent of course, because it could upset some more sensitive kids.

I wouldn’t. The Mummies belong in the graves in which they were buried in. Showing them in a museum is disrespectful and usually theft.

From birth.

There's one at our local museum, I've never thought to prevent my kids from seeing it, and we've been going since toddlerhood. They're still to young to really realise it's a dead person, to them it's just something we pass on the way to the dinosaur skeleton.

I think I was about 8 or 9 when I saw them.

I’d have been a bit scared younger but I had some issues around death due to my mum dying so other kids might be fine.

Any age really. It's not something I ever kept from DC. Seen at the museum and in documentaries. No real interest before 5. At 5 they asked to see some photos.

Any age. I've took my 3 year old to the British Museum recently, I didn't even consider it might not be appropriate.

A very small local museum near me had a display with a fake mummy, but one toe was real. I bloody loved it, used to ask my mum to go see it weekly, apparently I was about three years old when this obsession developed ( which lasts to this day, went to see it just a couple of weeks ago)

Any age. There's a mummified head in our local museum.

About 5.
As others have said, they bloody love mummies etc at about that age.

Any age. I’ve taken toddlers

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I wouldn’t. The Mummies belong in the graves in which they were buried in. Showing them in a museum is disrespectful and usually theft.

I agree, although it’s something that’s only really dawned on me in recent years.

I find the entire history of the Egyptians completely fascinating but equally fascinating is how barely anyone questions that they were real people who were buried according to their faith in their home country and now they’re in glass display boxes in museums all over the world for all to see.

I guess it’s the strange concept of time that makes everyone think it’s acceptable but if someone dug up graves from 50/100 years ago the bodies would be reburied respectfully, not put on display.