The Grand Egyptian Museum

One of the most long-awaited new museum projects of recent years, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) will finally open its doors in 2022. In January 2022, it was announced that work on the project is 99% complete. Between the pyramids and Cairo, the Grand Egyptian Museum is situated on the edge of the first desert plateau. The Nile carves its way through the desert to the Mediterranean, creating a geological state that has molded Egypt for almost 3,000 years.

The museum will be a cultural complex dedicated to Egyptology, with 24,000m2 of permanent display space, equivalent to roughly four football fields, a children's museum, conference and education facilities, a huge conservation center, and enormous gardens on the 50-hectare site. The museum's collections include the Tutankhamen collection, which is now kept in Cairo's Egyptian Museum, and the Solar Boat, which is now placed alongside the pyramids.

Address: Alexandria Desert Rd, Kafr Nassar, Al Haram, Giza Governorate, Egypt

Website: grandegyptianmuseum.org