Follow the mummy

An X-ray in 2007 gave it a gender; LSU FACES Lab gave it a mug; but Twitter gave it a voice. Louisiana Art & Science Museum’s 2,300-year-old mummy has been reclining comfortably in a cavernous space of the downtown museum since 1964 and has been tweeting to the masses since 2010. With a small following and nearly 600 tweets already, the mummy comments on events happening at LASM—“They are serving hot dogs outside my museum! Can someone bring me one? I haven’t eaten in millennia.”—posts interesting links about archaeology—“New pharaoh discovered in Egypt. Wonder if he has a Twitter feed yet…”—and reflects on the gaps in his own mysterious history.


Other surprise Twitter users include both LSU Tigers: the mascot, @LSUmiketiger, and the live cat, @MikeTigerVI. But similar to other educational opportunities at LASM, the mummy’s feed mainly provides a way to bring interesting facts about history and science to the tech-savvy youth demographic. Follow him @LASMmummy. Learn more at lasm.org.