Our tour guide will accompany you to visit:
The Grand Egyptian Museum located two kilometers west of the Giza plateau and covering more than 100,000 square meters one-third of the whole area is for the exhibition of 100,000 of artefacts create an interactive experience for the visitor the main attraction is the first full tomb collection of King Tutankhamun. The collection includes more than 4000 items collected from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and from storages of many other museums .it was designed by Heneghan Peng company and the exhibition design and museology is by the German Atelier Brückner and the Spanish contractor Acciona. In plan, the building is shaped like a big chamfered triangle divided into smaller triangles recalling the pyramids. The museum's north and south walls aline directly with the pyramid of Cheops and Mecerinos. In front of the building is a large park, filled with date palm trees. The façade of the museum consists of a translucid alabaster wall, inside the main entrance is a large, atrium where 70 huge statues are exhibited. The museum also contains a library, a research center, restoration laboratories, and a museum for children as well. The foundation stone of the Grand Egyptian Museum was laid on February 2002 and cost about 550 million dollar.
After the tour, you will go back to your hotel.
