Egypt's Grand Museum opens after many delays

We visit the new Grand Egyptian Museum, a spacious museum outside Cairo dedicated to displaying artifacts from ancient Egypt. It has finally opened its doors after decades of planning and construction ...
TribLIVE.com

Egypt opens colossal new antiquities museum after 2-decade wait

CAIRO — Prime ministers, presidents and royalty descended on Cairo on Saturday to attend the spectacle-laden inauguration of a sprawling new museum built near the Pyramids to house one of the world’s ...
Marin Independent Journal

With pharaoh-like fanfare, Egypt unveils a huge new museum dedicated to its ancient civilization

CAIRO (AP) — In an extravaganza of pharaonic imagery with a drone light show depicting ancient gods and pyramids in the sky, Egypt on Saturday inaugurated its long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum, a ...
Monocle

Museums should ask questions. But does Cairo’s new Grand Egyptian project provoke too many?

There are few cultural projects that have so perfectly captured both a nation’s ambition and its inertia as the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM). Two decades in the making, more than $1bn (€870m) spent and ...
TASS

Grand Egyptian Museum opens in Cairo

CAIRO, November 2. /TASS/. The Grand Egyptian Museum has opened in the Egyptian capital, according to a ceremony broadcast by the office of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. "The opening of the Grand ...
The Virginian-Pilot

With pharaoh-fanfare, Egypt unveils a huge new museum dedicated to its ancient civilization

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt on Saturday was inaugurating the long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum, the world’s largest museum dedicated to an ancient civilization — a megaproject also aimed at boosting the ...