The Grand Egyptian Museum Complex.
After a big competition to choose a new design for the museum was launched by the Ministry of Culture in January 2002 in Cairo , the competition was under the auspices of UNESCO, and the aim of this museum’s work is to be a unique, fun, educational and cultural transfer and to allow Egypt to become a major world center for Pharaonic history and a headquarters that invites all Egyptologists to attend to Egypt to learn.
This museum contains the diversity of Egypt’s heritage of arts and monuments necessary to display the value of civilization and to preserve this huge legacy
Museum location
the location has been chosen for the Grand Egyptian-museum, only two kilometres from the pyramids of Giza. , At the intersection between the desert and city, which extends towards the north and south for about 29 kilometres. From Dahshuru Abu Rawash near Abu Ghurab, Abu Sir, and Saqqara. It is located on a higher hill at the beginning of the Cairo-Alexandria Desert Road and can also be reached from the Fayoum Desert Road. , Which is a unique feature that has been identified as a nature reserve. Therefore, it is considered a window into the past and the present. The Giza Cemetery area, which was nominated by UNESCO as a World Cultural Heritage Site, contains monuments that cannot be dispensed with through the ages, such as the pyramid-and-sphinx .the museum will be built on an area of about 117 acres of land, or about 481 thousand square meters .
