From K-QED. If you attended sixth grade anywhere in or near San Jose, there's a high likelihood that you've been to it.

The largest collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities on public display west of the Mississippi.

The Rosicruchen Egyptian Museum.

Peggy Tranlet visited as a teenager but she still has questions. So many questions.

Why San Jose how did they get those mummies? How did those mummies get out of Egypt? And why is it not, I mean maybe I'm

mistaken but why is it not better known? Well that's a lot to unpack there

Peggy. To find the answers we sent her to the museum with

KQED's South Bay Arts reporter Rachel Myro.

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The first thing you notice when you arrive at the Egyptian Museum in San Jose's

Buchalic Rose Garden neighborhood is the fact it looks Egyptian.

The entrance to the museum is lined with huge columns, potted papyrus, and rows of ram-headed

sphinxes just like the ones lining the processional road to Karnak.

Then you open the giant brass-plated doors and you see...

Sixth graders, lots and lots of sixth graders.

We host 110,000 guests per year,

and about 26,000 of them are sixth graders.

That's Julie Scott, executive director of the Rosicruchen Egyptian Museum.

As it happens, she is a practicing Rosicruchen,

which is to say she's a member of a philosophical society that believes there's a spiritual transformative value to

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