US EditionThe Grand Egyptian Museum showcasing 50,000 artifacts is finally opening
- This coming week the Grand Egyptian Museum celebrates its full opening near the Pyramids of Giza, with a grand ceremony on November 1 broadcast live on GEM's TikTok channel at 6pm, as Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly expects international leaders to attend.
- The project began to replace Cairo's century-old Egyptian Museum in Cairo, facing repeated delays from political turmoil and the coronavirus pandemic, with nearly 20 years of Japan International Cooperation Agency support starting in 2006 through yen-denominated loans.
- The GEM displays the two Khufu boats, including a 42-meter funerary boat, with live restoration of the second boat for visitors, housed in state-of-the-art facilities.
- Egypt expects the GEM to attract five to eight million visitors annually, and Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said it will boost Egypt’s cultural status with many seeing it as a national revival; German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will attend the November 1 ceremony.
- The design emphasises sustainability with passive cooling, solar power, and recycling, earning EDGE Advanced Green Building Certification ; critics question the over $1 billion cost and President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's role as chair of the board of trustees.
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After intense preparations, the Egyptian Grand Museum dedicated to the Pharaohs is inaugurated this Saturday in the fascist of Cairo. This monumental building presents the most emblematic pieces of Egyptian antiquity. The galleries trace the civilization of the Pharaohs, 30 dynasties out of 5,000 years of history. - What does the Egyptian Grand Museum of Cairo look like, inaugurated in great pomp this Saturday? (International).
President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi inaugurated on Saturday November 1st the great Egyptian museum of Cairo, located on the Giza plateau near the three pyramids of Kheops, Képhren and Mykérinos. Initiated by President Hosni Mubarak, it took more than twenty years of work for one of the world's largest museums of archaeology and antiquities to be born dedicated to a single civilization. An extraordinary achievement.
After delays, Egypt set for lavish opening of grand museum
With much pomp and circumstance, Cairo is due to inaugurate on Saturday the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum, widely presented as the crowning jewel on authorities' efforts to overhaul the country's vital tourism industry.
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