Unrolling Eternity: The Brooklyn Books of the DeadOngoing

At the Brooklyn Museum, *Unrolling Eternity: The Brooklyn Books of the Dead* presents selections from the institution’s Egyptian funerary manuscripts—painted and written scrolls made to guide the dead through the afterlife. The exhibition treats these objects as working documents, where images, spells, and names were tools for protection as much as art. Shown in New York as part of the city’s long public engagement with Egyptian collections, it also invites a clear-eyed look at how museums translate sacred material for modern viewers.