Great Egyptian Museum
 GEM Conservation Center already completed in 2015 |
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| place |
Gisa , Egypt
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| architect | Heneghan Peng Group, Dublin |
| opening | 2020 (planned) |
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| management |
Tarek Tawfik
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The Great Egyptian Museum ( English Grand Egyptian Museum , GEM for short ; Arabic المتحف المصري الكبير, DMG al-Matḥaf al-Miṣrī al-Kabīr ), also known as the Giza Museum , is a planned museum to show exhibits from Ancient Egypt . The museum is under construction and is slated to partially open in 2020. 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 . Tarek Tawfik was appointed general manager .
history
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 , Ireland, which won an architecture competition announced on January 7, 2002 . The organizers received 1,557 designs from 82 countries, making the process the second largest architectural 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. The winning design was provided by the Heneghan Peng group from Dublin, Ireland, which received a prize of 250,000 US dollars . Second place went to Coop Himmelblau . Héctor Vigliecca and Luciene Quel (Brazil), Ruben Verdi (Italy), Michael Zimmermann, Engel and Zimmermann (Germany), Fernando Pardo Calvo y Bernardo Garcia Tapia, Nuno Filipe Morais Monteiro (Portugal) and Martin Roubik (Czech Republic) received honorable mention . In 2016, Atelier Brückner from Stuttgart received the order for the exhibition design and scenography.
On August 25, 2006, in anticipation of the museum's construction, 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 entrance area of the museum since 2018. The main staircase of the new museum is to be dominated by important statues.
Former minister of antiquities Mamdouh al-Damaty announced in May 2015 that the museum would be partially opened in 2018 after several delays. However, this date has already been postponed several times, and an opening in 2020 was expected. However, due to the corona pandemic , the date was postponed to 2021.
Those responsible self-confidently describe the epochal museum as a “gift from Egypt to humanity”.
Museum building
The building is shaped like a triangle in plan, the 800 m long main facade of which is to be 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 with fig trees is planned in front of the building. 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 a large atrium in the main entrance area with large statues on display. Part of the facade is provided with the cartouches of important Pharaohs names. Mentioned Cheops , Chephren , Mycerinus , Amenemhet , Senusret , Amenhotep , Thutmose , Akhenaten , Tutankhamun and Ramses .
The large Egyptian museum will also have a children's museum , a convention center , a training center and workshops.
Status of construction work in 2019
The Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly started working with representatives of the Supreme Museum Construction Committee in August 2019 to work out concrete plans for the opening ceremony of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM). Although the final opening date has not yet been set, well-known representatives from all governments will be invited and global television broadcasting will be 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 last announced opening date was 2022, which should be undercut as far as possible.
View of the construction site from the Giza plateau
Part of the facade with cartouches of important Pharaohs names
Statue of Ramses II in the entrance hall
View of the Cheops pyramid from the future parking lot
View from the parking lot to the front facade
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.
costs
The total cost of the project is estimated at $ 550 million, of which $ 300 million will be financed by Japanese loans. The remaining amount will be raised by the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities as well as donations and international donors.
exhibition
The exhibition with around 50,000 objects will take up around a third of the museum space. The exhibition master plan, the exhibition design and museum studies submitted by Metaphor and Cultural Innovations Ltd . The main attraction will be the first exhibition of the almost complete grave goods of King Tutankhamun . This collection includes around 5000 objects from his grave KV62 and is moved from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo , where it could never be fully shown due to lack of space. Other exhibits come from museums and camps in Luxor , Minya , Sohag , Assiut , Bani Suwaif , Fayum, and Alexandria .
Web links
- official website
- GEM - Grand Egyptian Museum . In: Atelier-Brueckner.com
- Jürgen Stryjak: Grand Egyptian Museum - A new palace for Tutenchamun and Co. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur , January 15, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Taubert: We are building the pyramid of modernity on www.lr-online.de, October 18, 2014; accessed on August 22, 2020.
- ↑ a b Nevine El-Aref: Ancient Egyptian artefacts from Al-Bahnasa arrives at the GEM , message to Ahram Online on 13 September 2018th
- ↑ Nancy Farghalli: Market Place: Egypt's next big thing . In: Marketplace . American Public Media. July 25, 2006. Archived from the original on May 15, 2008. Retrieved May 31, 2011.
- ^ Yasser Mansour: The Grand Museum of Egypt. International Architecture Competition . Egyptian ministry of culture, Zamalek ( Kairo ) 2003, ISBN 977-305-471-3 , pp. 442 ( https://books.google.com/books?id=JZMcViI11T8C&pg=PA442&dq=giza+plateau,+vegetation&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj0hoLzt4bQAhVL54MKHeFNBBQAhVL54MKHeFNBBQWQQ6AEIVTAI#vegetation%Cogle=AEIVTAI#v=oniza%CoQQ6AEIVTAI20 . com).
- ^ International project competition in two stages for the design of the Grand Egyptian Museum, Cairo (Egypt) - Results. ( Memento from November 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Al-Masry Al-Youm: Great Museum to be inaugurated in May 2018. On: egyptindependent.com of May 10, 2015, last accessed on June 2, 2017.
- ↑ a b The GEM, Egypt's new landmark, remains locked on papyrus-magazin.de; accessed on August 22, 2020.
- ↑ Grand Egyptian Museum Cairo - Museum for the Third Millennium . In: Line Pipe Global . Issue 09, April 2016 ( smlp.eu ).
- ↑ Egypt govs prepares ceremony for Grand Egyption Museum opening on www.egyptindependent.com. Accessed August 21, 2020.
- ^ Rolf Brockschmidt: European Funding of Egyptian Museums - Crumbling Icon of Egyptology on www.tagesspiegel.de, December 11, 2019; accessed on August 21, 2020.
- ↑ Allison Keyes: For the First Time, All 5,000 Objects Found Inside King Tut's Tomb Will Be Displayed Together. On: Smithsonian.com December 21, 2016; last accessed on June 2, 2017.
- ↑ Basma Ragab, Omar Abdel Hamid: The Grand Egyptian Museum: an exclusive tour by Daily News Egypt. On: dailynewsegypt.com on July 28, 2016; last accessed on June 2, 2017.
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