Information about the new Egyptian Museum

The Grand Egyptian Museum preserves the history of ancient Egypt spanning over seven thousand years, and is uniquely located at the threshold of the past and the present. The new museum is located near the timeless wonders, the Pyramids of Giza. The museum houses many artifacts, about 3,500 of which belong to the famous King Tutankhamun. The design of the Grand Egyptian Museum was reached as a result of an international architectural competition launched by the Ministry of Culture. The competition was sponsored by UNESCO and supervised by the UIA. The museum is considered a major global center for Pharaonic history and a center for Egyptology.

The museum is located in Giza, a project that has been in the works for many years, and was scheduled to open in 2011. After many challenges, including the recent global pandemic, the opening was postponed several times, but recently it was announced that the museum will open in 2022. The New Egyptian Museum was built about 2 kilometers from the Giza Pyramids complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the museum project is one of the planned projects to boost tourism in the Giza area, which includes opening the museum and renovating the Giza Plateau. Egypt is expected to see at least a 30% increase in tourism after the opening of the new museum, which will lead to an increase in demand for hotels, and provide approximately 60,000 new jobs in the tourism sector.

Grand Egyptian Museum location

The Grand Egyptian Museum is located west of Cairo, near the Giza Pyramids in Giza District. The Grand Egyptian Museum was built to be a testament to the greatness of ancient Egypt. The museum was designed to be the largest archaeological museum in the world, with an area of ​​five hundred thousand square meters, and contains more than one hundred thousand artifacts from the ancient Pharaonic, Greek and Roman eras. The Grand Egyptian Museum is expected to be visited by more than five million visitors annually. The museum includes a number of commercial and entertainment service buildings, a center for ancient materials sciences and restoration, and a museum garden planted with trees that were planted in the era of the Pharaohs and ancient Egypt. The museum project costs approximately 550 million dollars, and will be built in three main phases.

Stages of construction of the Grand Egyptian Museum

The following explains some information about the stages of construction of the Egyptian Museum: The second phase of the project was opened in 2010. This phase includes the construction of the restoration center, which includes a number of examination and analysis laboratories, such as the microbiology and electron microscopy laboratories, in addition to maintenance and restoration laboratories such as the mummy maintenance laboratory, the stone laboratory, the wood laboratory, and the metal, porcelain and glass laboratory. The construction of the Egyptian Museum by establishing museum exhibition halls, a scholars’ museum, a conference and cinema center, in addition to establishing the archaeological library, and building the children’s museum. The opening of the first phase of the museum will begin with the display of King Tutankhamun’s funerary artifacts. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has set the final opening date for the museum in November 2022.

New Egyptian Museum Building

In the area between the Nile Valley and the Giza Plateau, the new Egyptian Museum was built at a height of 49 meters. This huge building consists of main exhibition halls, sculptured gardens, and upon entering the museum there is a huge statue of Ramses II, and in the middle of the lobby there will be a large staircase leading to the different sections of the museum. The museum has many tall glass windows overlooking the pyramids, and for children there will be a separate children’s museum, which will use the latest visual technology to explain the landmarks of ancient Egypt to children.