Overview
The Great Egyptian Museum, also known as the Giza Museum, is a planned museum designed to show exhibits from Ancient Egypt. The museum is under construction and was originally scheduled to partially open in 2020. This date has now been set for the year 2021. When fully completed, it will be the largest archaeological museum in the world. The museum covers an area of ​​50 hectares, is located about two kilometers from the Giza necropolis and is part of a new master plan for the Giza Plateau. Initially, Tarek Tawfik was appointed general manager, now replaced by Atef Moftah
On January 5, 2002, the then Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak laid the symbolic foundation stone for the Great Egyptian Museum. The building is designed according to the plans of the architects group Heneghan Peng from Dublin, which won an architecture competition held on January 7, 2002. The organizers received 1,557 designs from 82 countries, making the process the second largest architecture competition in history. In the second stage of the competition, 20 selected applicants were asked to submit additional information. The assessment was completed on June 2, 2003. Heneghan Peng received a prize of 250,000 US dollars for the winning design. Second place went to Coop Himmelblau. Héctor Vigliecca and Luciene Quel (Brazil), Ruben Verdi (Italy), Michael Zimmermann, Engel und Zimmermann (Germany), Fernando Pardo Calvo y Bernardo Garcia Tapia, Nuno Filipe Morais Monteiro (Portugal) and Martin Roubik (Czech Republic) received honorable mention The Atelier Brückner office from Stuttgart received the order for the exhibition design and scenography in 2016.
On August 25, 2006, in preparation for the construction of the museum, the statue of Ramses II was transported from the Ramses train station in Cairo to the Giza plateau. The statue, which is estimated to be 3,200 years old, was cleaned and restored there. It has been in the already finished entrance area of ​​the museum since 2018. The main staircase of the new museum is to be dominated by important historical statues.
The former minister of antiquities Mamdouh al-Damaty announced in May 2015 that the museum was to be partially opened in 2018 after several delays. Postponement to 2021.
Those responsible self-confidently describe the epochal museum as a “gift from Egypt to humanity
The building is shaped like a triangle, the 800 m long main facade of which was constructed according to the principle of the Sierpinski triangle. The plans for this come from Heneghan Peng Architects, Buro Happold and Arup. It is located two kilometers west of the pyramids near a motorway junction. The north and south sides of the building point directly to the Cheops and Mykerinos pyramids. A large square is created in front of the building and planted with fig trees. One of the main features of the museum is the transparent alabaster stone wall that forms the front facade of the building. There will be an atrium in the main entrance area with large statues on display. Part of the facade is provided with the cartouches of important Pharaohs names. Cheops, Chephren, Mykerinos, Amenemhet, Sesostris, Amenophis, Thutmose, Akhenaten, Tutankhamun and Ramses are mentioned.
The large Egyptian museum will also have a children's museum, a convention center, a training center and workshops
The Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, together with representatives of the Supreme Museum Construction Committee, started working out concrete plans for the inauguration of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in August 2019. Although the final opening date has not yet been set, well-known representatives from all governments are invited and a worldwide television broadcast is being sought. A large event company is contracted for this. - At the time of the meeting, 88 percent of all construction work had been completed.
The previous collections of the Ancient Egyptian Museum in the middle of Cairo have been and are continuously reviewed to find out how the content of the two museums can be clearly separated. Some specimens in the Cairo complex are carefully restored and stored in the workshop cellars for later relocation or even brought to Giza. The buildings that have been used so far also urgently need to be renovated.
On January 5, 2002, the then Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak laid the symbolic foundation stone for the Great Egyptian Museum. The building is designed according to the plans of the architects group Heneghan Peng from Dublin, which won an architecture competition held on January 7, 2002. The organizers received 1,557 designs from 82 countries, making the process the second largest architecture competition in history. In the second stage of the competition, 20 selected applicants were asked to submit additional information. The assessment was completed on June 2, 2003. Heneghan Peng received a prize of 250,000 US dollars for the winning design. Second place went to Coop Himmelblau. Héctor Vigliecca and Luciene Quel (Brazil), Ruben Verdi (Italy), Michael Zimmermann, Engel und Zimmermann (Germany), Fernando Pardo Calvo y Bernardo Garcia Tapia, Nuno Filipe Morais Monteiro (Portugal) and Martin Roubik (Czech Republic) received honorable mention The Atelier Brückner office from Stuttgart received the order for the exhibition design and scenography in 2016.
On August 25, 2006, in preparation for the construction of the museum, the statue of Ramses II was transported from the Ramses train station in Cairo to the Giza plateau. The statue, which is estimated to be 3,200 years old, was cleaned and restored there. It has been in the already finished entrance area of ​​the museum since 2018. The main staircase of the new museum is to be dominated by important historical statues.
The former minister of antiquities Mamdouh al-Damaty announced in May 2015 that the museum was to be partially opened in 2018 after several delays. Postponement to 2021.
Those responsible self-confidently describe the epochal museum as a “gift from Egypt to humanity
The building is shaped like a triangle, the 800 m long main facade of which was constructed according to the principle of the Sierpinski triangle. The plans for this come from Heneghan Peng Architects, Buro Happold and Arup. It is located two kilometers west of the pyramids near a motorway junction. The north and south sides of the building point directly to the Cheops and Mykerinos pyramids. A large square is created in front of the building and planted with fig trees. One of the main features of the museum is the transparent alabaster stone wall that forms the front facade of the building. There will be an atrium in the main entrance area with large statues on display. Part of the facade is provided with the cartouches of important Pharaohs names. Cheops, Chephren, Mykerinos, Amenemhet, Sesostris, Amenophis, Thutmose, Akhenaten, Tutankhamun and Ramses are mentioned.
The large Egyptian museum will also have a children's museum, a convention center, a training center and workshops
The Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, together with representatives of the Supreme Museum Construction Committee, started working out concrete plans for the inauguration of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in August 2019. Although the final opening date has not yet been set, well-known representatives from all governments are invited and a worldwide television broadcast is being sought. A large event company is contracted for this. - At the time of the meeting, 88 percent of all construction work had been completed.
The previous collections of the Ancient Egyptian Museum in the middle of Cairo have been and are continuously reviewed to find out how the content of the two museums can be clearly separated. Some specimens in the Cairo complex are carefully restored and stored in the workshop cellars for later relocation or even brought to Giza. The buildings that have been used so far also urgently need to be renovated.
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