This year, after over two decades of development, the Grand Egyptian Museum will finally be inaugurated.
The Egyptian government organized an international competition for the design of a new museum near the pyramids of Giza some twenty years ago.
Grand Egyptian Museum
Now, after decades of preparation, one of the most expected and anticipated institutions in the world is preparing for its inauguration.
The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) has announced that it will eventually open in 2023, and when it does, it will house the world’s greatest and most intricate collection of ancient relics and riches.
The remarkable new institution outside of Cairo was designed by Dublin-based Heneghan Peng Architects, and its size is possibly the only thing more impressive than its services.
The structure is over 5,200,000 square feet in size. Once the museum is operational, it is anticipated that it will receive 15,000 visitors per day or five million per year.
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What To See There?
The Grand Egyptian Museum will be supported by one of the world’s largest conservation centers, with over 17 labs devoted to preserving the history of a civilization dating back thousands of years.
In addition to permanent elements such as a massive, 3,200-year-old statue of Ramses II at the entryway and more than 100,000 artifacts, the Grand Egyptian Museum will regularly hold unique exhibitions.
The opening exhibition will feature the previously announced display of King Tutankhamun’s treasures, with around 5,000 pieces on display for the first first time since their discovery in 1922.
Some of these objects were previously shown in the 117-year-old Egyptian Museum, where a big team of conservators and archaeologists has been working around the clock to preserve and re-examine a large number of them.
In a sense, the Grand Egyptian Museum is a successor to what is today one of the country’s most significant cultural institutions, located in Tahrir Square in central Cairo.
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