US EditionEgypt Opens Colossal New Antiquities Museum
The museum houses 100,000 artifacts and is expected to boost tourism, which generated $15.3 billion and 2.7 million jobs in Egypt in 2024, officials said.
- On Saturday, Egypt opened the new billion-dollar Grand Egyptian Museum near Giza, attended by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and dignitaries from 79 countries.
- Planned over 20 years, the museum aimed to celebrate and preserve Egypt's Pharaonic heritage, a key element of modern nationalism, as noted by Rifa'ah al-Tahtawi.
- The museum's collection includes 100,000 artifacts with a massive statue of Ramses II, and renowned Egyptian soprano Fatma Said performed at the inauguration on Saturday.
- Tourism figures show Egypt's sector generated $15.3 billion last year and 2.7 million jobs in 2024, benefiting many tourism workers in hotels, restaurants and guiding.
- Framed as a national milestone, observers call the opening possibly the biggest cultural event since the 1869 Suez Canal inauguration, with 16 million tourists arriving despite the Gaza War.
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Tourists have flocked to Egypt and on Saturday, November 1st, it was time for the grand opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum. A project that has taken 20 years and cost almost 10 billion kronor. See the pictures from the grand opening.
After years of delay, the Grand Egyptian Museum is finally finished, a colossal building with the largest archaeological collection in the world. The invitation to the opening ceremony was also followed by the German Federal President, demands for the return of the bust of the Nofretete were addressed to him.
Egypt's Magnificent new Museum: Nationalism, Tourism, and the Economy
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Egypt’s new billion-dollar museum near the Giza pyramids opened on Saturday. It has 100,000 artifacts, including a massive statue of Ramses II (1279 BCE – 1213 BCE). It may be the biggest museum in the world. Given that Egypt is now a rigid dictatorship with few rights for citizens, the opening of the museum could be seen as a bit pharaonic itself. But in fact it has been planned for 20 years, long before the curre…
Egypt opens colossal new antiquities museum
CAIRO: Prime ministers, presidents and royalty descended on Cairo on Saturday to attend the spectacle-laden inauguration of a sprawling new billion-dollar museum built near the Pyramids to house one of the world’s richest collections of antiquities. The inauguration of the Grand Egyptian Museum, or GEM, marks the end of a two-decade construction effort hampered by the Arab Spring uprisings, pandemic and wars in neighbouring countries. “We’ve all…
A striking visual and artistic spectacle accompanied the opening of the colossal new museum of over half a million square meters, built with financial and technical support from Japan, which cost $1 billion.
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