OPENING EARLY 2020
The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is currently one of the largest development projects in the world. Given the global interest in the pharaonic history, Egypt and in Particular the resident of Cairo are eagerly anticipating the arrival of this new cultural destination.
The GEM is scheduled to open in 2020, exhibiting the full Tutankhamun collection with many pieces to be displayed for the first time. The museum is sited on 50 hectares (120 acres) of land approximately two kilometers from the Giza pyramids and is part of a new master plan for the plateau.
The head of El-Tayeb Abbas said that the transferred artifacts belong to different eras, from the pre-dynastic period to the Greco-Roman era.
Ticket prices for the Grand Egyptian Museum have been announced. An entry ticket will be LE 30, while a pass that would grant full access to the museum is said to cost LE 60.
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