TIL the Society of the Rosy Cross founded an Egyptian museum in San Jose, in 1928.

TIL the Society of the Rosy Cross founded an Egyptian museum in San Jose, in 1928.

On the one hand, this fills me with adventurous expectancy – how Weird Tales can you get?
On the other, what do you do, exactly, if you’re a respectable curator of Egyptian antiquities and you want to participate in broad scholarly debates and so on, if you work with/at this institution?

Their mission statement says they use trans-disciplinary approaches to increasing knowledge about the past, present, and future (emphasis added). They’re developing a Rosicrucian Alchemy Museum with a working Alchemy Laboratory with work stations for up to 12 students. Classes on plant and mineral alchemy will be presented by visiting alchemists and herbalists.
Of particular interest, perhaps, to trey causey Kenneth Hite
Have any of you guys been there? What’s it like?

http://www.egyptianmuseum.org/

Space 1889 Cover by © Fetsch

Space 1889 Cover by © Fetsch