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Read more: The ultimate city guide to Cairo Touted as the world’s largest archaeological museum, the GEM has been in the making for almost two decades. While it’s been gradually opening since ...
The Grand Egyptian Museum will open 12 halls with exhibits about ancient Egypt in its main galleries starting this week in a trial run ahead of the still-unannounced official opening, officials ...
The grand staircase, six stories high and with a view of the pyramids, and the commercial area are open to the public, showcasing monuments and artifacts that include sarcophagi and statues. Other parts of the museum, including the King Tutankhamun treasure collection, are set to open at later dates.
The official grand opening was expected to take place in late 2024, with the first exhibition intended to showcase 5,000 objects from King Tutankhamun's tomb—relocated from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo—and the reconstructed (August 2021) Khufu ship, a solar barque, which was transferred from the Giza Solar boat museum beside the Great Pyramid.
The very biggest news in Egypt, though, is the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), an estimated billion-dollar architectural marvel on an over 120-acre site on the Giza Plateau, near the pyramids and ...
Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt: Over 100,000 artifacts [1] (due to being partly opened in 2018, currently housed in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo); British Museum, London, England: Over 100,000 artifacts [2] (not including the 2001 donation of the six million artifact Wendorf Collection of Egyptian and Sudanese Prehistory) [3] [4]
German Museum of Technology: Berlin: 1982 Science and technology: 28,500 m 2 (307,000 sq ft) [23] Germany: Science Museum: London: 1857 Science and technology 27,500 m 2 (296,000 sq ft) [24] United Kingdom: Metropolitan Museum of Art: New York City: 1870 Art 190,000 m 2 (2,000,000 sq ft) [25] United States: Palace Museum: Beijing: 1925 ...
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