The Grand Egyptian Museum
The Grand Egyptian Museum is located a few miles west of Cairo near the pyramids of Giza. It is built to be the world’s largest museum of monuments, accommodating 5 million visitors annually. In addition to the commercial and recreational services buildings, the restoration center and the museum garden, which will be planted with trees that were known to the ancient Egyptian. Egypt launched a campaign to finance the $ 550 million project, in which Japan contributes $ 300 million as a soft loan, but the first attempt to raise funds for the construction of the giant edifice was at the New Exhibition of Egyptian Antiquities at the Los Angeles Museum of Art, Under the banner of Tutankhamun and the Pharaonic Golden Age. The museum will house more than 100,000 artifacts from the Pharaonic, Greek and Roman eras, which will give a huge boost to the tourism sector in Egypt.
Facts about Grand Egyptian Museum
the design
Due to the fact that the museum is located in front of the Giza pyramids, the façade is designed in the form of triangles, each of which is divided into smaller triangles in a symbolic framework of the pyramids, according to a mathematical theory of a Polish world that speaks of the infinite division of the triangle.
Buildings
The museum is located on an area of 100,000 square meters, including 45,000 meters of museum display. The remaining space includes a specialized library in Egyptology, a conference center, a research center, a restoration lab, a 3D cinema and visitors’ places such as restaurants, Gifts, and parking parking.
Restoration Center
Located on an area of 32 thousand meters, and is located under the surface level of about 10 meters, and was created a tunnel between the restoration center and the museum through which the transfer of the effects of a safe about 300 meters. [10] The restoration center includes 19 laboratories in which various types of monuments are restored and returned to their natural form, including:
Ceramic, glass and metal laboratory: Special restoration of pots and statues made of inorganic materials.
Wood factory: The restoration of wooden artifacts such as coffins, statues, funerary furniture, wooden models, boats, tools and wooden trusses.
Stone Factory: Great stone artifacts of the restoration process.
Microbiological Laboratory: Determining the types of living organisms that cause damage to the impact, making it easier to prepare the chemicals necessary to stop the growth of these organisms.
Scanning electron microscopy laboratory: The method of processing samples and chemical components before sending them to the microbiological laboratory.
Mummies plant “human remains”: the restoration of mummies of birds, especially the birds of the father “Horus”, which is one of the gods of the Pharaohs.
