h. spencer lewis in new york in 1915. and he decided to move the headquarters out to san jose in 1927. the museum tells me that he was attracted to the free thinking ways of california, but also land was pretty cheap and affordable at that time. so there it was. it got located to just san jose. >> so what artifacts are at the museum? we are looking at some video that you supply to us. walk us through some of the items. >> oh, yes. so the museum houses a five mummies, a number of animal mummies as well, including cats, baby crocodiles, a number of different birds. there are even ancient egyptian hair extensions. there's a 3500 year old senet game, which was a popular board game in ancient egyptian times and a life size statue of cleopatra. >> whoa. okay how did they get all that? >> yes. so h. spencer lewis and the rosicrucians acquired a number of artifacts from the ancient egyptian city of amarna and in the 1920s. and the conception for the museum began with one lioness goddess statue and sort of grew from there. the group conducted another journey through egypt in 1929, which led to