New Egyption Museum

After a few miles to the west of Cairo, near the Giza pyramids by a team of 25 engineers architect with 350 workers to work in
The giant new museum on an area of 117 acres. Egypt has launched a campaign to finance the project estimated at a cost of about $ 550 million.

The first attempt to raise money for building the museum was the new exhibition of Antiquities in the Egyptian Arts Museum in Los Angeles, United States under the slogan 'mulberry Amon Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of Franh'.

The new museum is scheduled to open in 2009 to introduce at least one hundred thousand pieces of relics from pharaonic times, and the Romanian and Greek, which means giving great impetus to the tourism sector.

The new museum will desert plain at the edge of the Nile Valley. Where finds visiting Giza pyramids, one of the greatest effects in the world.


The project design to a large Egyptian ambition to derail a new architectural masterpiece near the pyramids of Giza, where the front cover new museum Alalbester and fresh roof with the pyramids.

The people leading the giant gate at the entrance to the museum, which will lead the main Bahth giant statue of Pharaoh Ramses II, weighing up to 83 tons, which is currently in the heart of the capital, field Disneyland.


In 2002, President Hosni Mubarak of laying the cornerstone of the project, as was the announcement of the international competition to design the draft he said in 2002 and 1557 which are discussed from 83 State, where he participated in the design winner 14 Office consultant from 5 different States .. And contracts with the design team to prepare designs and the first phase which ended in June 2004.

The second phase, which ended by the team in June 2005, to establish a center restoration effects Supplement Museum and electric power station and fire station to receive the repair center that will Museum for maintenance and repair work needed to be prepared and ready for display upon completion of the museum building .. And already been initiated in the phase of the rehabilitation project site museum, which will expire in September 2005.