The Met is normally closed on Wednesday nights, but on January 23 it will open for the coveted LGBT event Women of the Nile: Goddesses, Queens and a Pharaoh (about Hatshepsut)

Hosts Mary D. Dorman and Colleen McDonough, Thomas P. Campbell (Director, Met Museum), Emily K Rafferty (President, Metropolitan Museum of Art), Donna Williams and the Multicultural Audience Development Initiative's Advisory Committee

When: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 6:30 - 9:00 p.m.

Where: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5^th Avenue @ 82^nd Street (main entrance), NYC

Cost: Free entry but Tickets are Limited

RSVP: MANDATORY by Friday Jan 18 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art: audience.development@metmuseum.org (copy Natasha@YaleGalaEvents.org if you wish). Maximum 2 people per RSVP. RSVP at once; please cancel if your plans change.

Note: If you RSVP to the Met Museum, you give them permission to add you to their LGBT Events list.

Dress: Business attire or festive or dressy, please

Event information:
Women of the Nile: Goddesses, Queens and a Pharaoh.

Hatshepsut was the most prominent female rule of ancient Egypt.

For more than 20 years, she held the reigns of Egypt's government at a time when Egypt was the most powerful state in the ancient world.

She was Queen, regent and then the female Pharaoh, as she wore the Pharoah's beard (an early Drag King) and ruled Egypt as Pharaoh.

Enjoy a private viewing of exhibits (in the Lila Acheson Wallace Galleries of Egyption Art), listen to curator talk (by Adela Oppenheim, Associate Curator)

Mingle with others and ejoy refreshments at this elegant event. Event is similar to the Post-Pride Met Event, but with an LBT women's focus