The Grand Egyptian Museum is finally open!

Explore the Grand Egyptian Museum The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), also known as the Giza Museum, is a museum under construction in Egypt, located near the Giza Pyramids. It is planned to be the largest archaeological museum in the world. The museum is about 2 km from the Giza Pyramids and covers an area of 480,000 square meters. It is part of the overall planning of the Giza Plateau. In the future, it will display 50,000 exhibits, including the mask of Tutankhamun. The construction of the museum was completed by a joint venture between the Belgian company Besix and the Egyptian company Orascom, and was scheduled to be completed in 2021. The museum was originally announced to open in 2021, but it did not open until February 6, 2023. The Grand Egyptian Museum project is "one of the world's most important cultural projects." The first and second phases of the Grand Egyptian Museum, which was founded in 2011 and began construction in 2005, were completed on June 14, 2010. The construction of the first two phases included power stations, cultural relics restoration centers, and fire protection facilities. The third phase was completed in 2012. In April 2020, the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum was postponed to 2021 due to the pandemic. On November 16, 2022, it was reported that the Grand Egyptian Museum is expected to open at the end of 2022 (or early 2023). On October 10, 2024, local time, Egyptian Prime Minister Madbouly announced that the Grand Egyptian Museum would begin trial operation of some halls on October 16. After the completion of the Grand Egyptian Museum, it will display the rarest and most important cultural relics in Egyptian history, including about 5,000 funerary objects of the famous Pharaoh Tutankhamun. In addition, the solar boat next to the Pyramid of Khufu will also be moved to the museum. The Grand Egyptian Museum will display 100,000 cultural relics and will become the museum with the most pharaonic relics in the world. On August 10, 2021, a solar boat buried with the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu was moved from near the Pyramid of Khufu to the Grand Egyptian Museum.