Egypt's historic treasures can be found in famous museums all around the world. Those in Egypt's possession, though, finally have an institution with the space to house and display them properly. The Grand Egyptian Museum is set to fully open its doors on November 4.

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The Grand Egyptian Museum, located near the Pyramids of Giza in Cairo, sets a new standard for cultural preservation and display. It features over 100,000 artifacts, including the 11-meter-tall statue of Ramses II and, for the first time, all 5,600 treasures from Tutankhamen's tomb in one place. 

Beyond its role as a museum, the institution also functions as a research center and conservation laboratory, highlighting Egypt's growing capacity in science and culture. The museum is expected to boost tourism, with Egypt anticipating 18 million visitors and projecting further increases, reinforcing the museum's role as a symbol of national identity.

The Grand Egyptian Museum is new symbol of national identity

The Grand Egyptian Museum sets a new standard. In the entry hall looms the statue of Ramses II, the great pharaoh who ruled over the land along the Nile for decades. The 11-meter-tall piece weighs 80 tons and is 3,200 years old. 100,000 artifacts bear testimony to the different periods of millennia of cultural history. What's really spectacular is how you can look at things that you couldn't before because there simply wasn't enough space in the Egyptian Museum at Tahrir Square. The new landmark of Egypt lies right next to an old one, the Pyramids of Giza. For the first time since the excavation work by Egyptologist Howard Carter, all treasures from Tutankhamen's tomb have been assembled at a single location, an astounding 5,600 artifacts, including Tutankhamen's world-famous funerary mask. This iconic piece is protected by strict security measures, but visitors should get as close as possible, explains the organizer. The lighting of the mask makes it look as though it were floating, meaning it's actually not important how thick the glass is or what its edges are like. Just the artifact itself takes center stage. The Grand Egyptian is more than a museum. It's a place of research and a lab for conservators. Egypt is showing it's able to really do great things in terms of science, culture and curation. Egyptology was a science basically restricted to the northern hemisphere for many, many years, many decades. Of course, that is in part an account of the situation in Egypt at the time, but things have also been shifting for many years. And tourism figures are set to reflect that trend. Egypt expects 18 million visitors this year. We're anticipating that this will increase definitely the numbers of tourists coming to Egypt by at least 10 percent or 20 percent. There are collections of Egyptian artifacts all over the world, but the Grand Egyptian Museum is a new symbol of national identity.

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