International Museum Observation (7) Grand Egyptian Museum

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Grand Egyptian Museum is finally completed!

The person in charge, General ATEF MOFTAH, recently said that the museum will be officially opened to the public in 2021 -this museum originally planned to be used in 2011, allowing the world to wait for a full ten years for a full ten years Essence But the long waiting should be worth it, in his words:

"Egypt's gift to the world is worth this grand celebration."

The Greater Egypt Museum in construction, © Safareya.com

In 1992, the construction project of the Greater Egypt Museum was first public. It will succeed in the status of the Egyptian museum and become the most important national museum exhibition hall of Egypt in the new millennium. As the most eye -catching part of the new construction overall planning of the Giza Plateau, it carries the role of ancient civilization protection and public education, and is also given a mission to drive the tourism economy -the site is located in the most prestigious tourist history landscape from Egypt, The Giza pyramid group is only less than two kilometers away, which is undoubtedly a more convenient choice for tourists.

The Greater Egypt Museum in construction, © Safareya.com

In addition, the museum itself is also positioned as the famous landmark landscape of Egypt. Investing 795 million US dollars, covering an area of ​​480,000 square meters. Since the beginning, the Greater Egypt Museum is committed to becoming "the world's largest archeological museum." The president of an international travel agency said that the completion of the museum "will force everyone to change their travel plan in Cairo". Prior to this, people generally spend two days to visit Cairo. The Egyptian Museum in the center of Cairo. And now, visiting the Greater Egypt Museum may take two days- "You can't expect to finish watching the Louvre, right?

In the 2002 Ministry of Culture's Culture Call for the Museum, designers from 82 countries participated in the design and submitted as many as 1,557 works, making it the second largest building competition in history. In the end, Heneghan Peng, an architect in Dublin, won the competition. The fold -like irregular design and the steady triangle shape form organic linkage and observation with the pyramid group not far away.

Museum 3D stereo renderings, © e-marchitect.c

In its initial design, the exterior wall of the museum will be created from one kilometer -long agate. From day to night, the color of the stone will change with the light to create a mysterious and rich and charming landscape. At the time of the completion of it, the agate material was replaced by glass, and the length was reduced by at least half. More in line with the concept of saving resources at the moment, showing full modernity.

Museum exterior wall appearance renderings, © safareya.com

If you look at the shape and layout of the museum, the "modernity" manifestation will be more obvious. The main building building not only includes about 2,4000 square meters of exhibition space, but also has organization departments such as libraries, media data centers, education centers, conference centers, and retail stores. In addition to the main building building, it is surrounded by large and small theme parks, cafes and restaurants to provide visitors with a variety of entertainment and leisure venues. Under the vast desert landscape, these venues have built a fairly excellent modern civilized weather, and also show the concept of this newly established museum. It said in its official introduction:

"The design concept of the Great Egyptian Museum is to build a world -class building to show the progress of Egyptian civilization, evolution and development."

Museum venue design drawing, t http://gem.gov.eg

Egypt, which carries more than 7,000 years of history, has a long -term, calm and powerful way to focus on the growth and change of culture. However, the rise of the concept of modernity alone seems to be not enough to be competent for the Egyptian ancient civilization portal. After all, this new museum takes over, but the original Egyptian museum, it in 1901 in the Tahel Plaza in the center of Cairo City, Cairo City, Cairo Plaza The completion, the best -flavored restaurants, hotels and mosques and churches have gone through centuries of storms, becoming an indelible national memory of Egypt, and a tourist attraction in the minds of tourists. Because of this, someone began to secretly worry that it would make the traditional museum's classical flavor disappear?

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There is no need to worry about this issue. The statement and understanding of the Egyptian Museum on the Egyptian civilization is more far -reaching under modern appearance -the important reasons for its birth, which expands the original pavilion capacity and exhibits more precious collections for the public. The many shortcomings of cultural relics storage technology and environmental conditions are avoided to avoid showing further signs of decline after thousands of years of cultural relics.

And all of this must be completed by strong scientific and technological strength and precision management system. The Greater Egypt Museum will collect more than 100,000 cultural relics to pay tribute to the eternal ancient Egyptian history. The four exhibition areas in the museum are divided into the course of time, respectively, during the prehistoric to ancient kingdom period, during the period of the Kingdom, the New Kingdom period and late and Roman periods. Blood and vitality, the oldest center of civilization in the world has never stopped. "Continuously expressing life through art" is the characteristics of the Egyptian and Egyptian people. From land, kingship and national system to daily life, religious beliefs and knowledge spread, these proposition units seem to be magnificent, but if they are really implemented in a piece of cultural relics, they will become touching. Among them, one of the most exciting collections is undoubtedly the treasure of the famous King Tutankhamun. Among these rare treasures with a history of more than 3,300 years, many have never appeared in front of the world. Prior to the official opening of the museum, Stephanie Vermillion of CNN CNN, CNN, was fortunate to get a precious editing opportunity and entered the Cultural Relics Protection Center of the Greater Egypt Museum. Behind the two heavy door, she saw a lot of collections waiting for repair, and was placed aside quietly. Among them, there were textiles, leather shoes, renovation necklaces, grazing paper products and even waist cloth that had been worn. Underwear), there are also three funeral beds prepared for the king for the king for the king for the future. She was a little surprised because everything was "preserved without a glass cover" and preserved the most true appearance.

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Soon, these collections must really meet with the world, and the status will be almost the same as when they were just unearthed: the Greater Egypt Museum intends to copy a cemetery in the exhibition area, and the British archeologist Howard Carter in 1922 It was found that the tomb of King Tatan Camon was consistent, and brought the doty "Tomb Raider" immersive experience to the visitors -the hurriedly buried Pharaoh was in the tomb that was not fully repaired. Surrounded by precious funerals made Carter and his colleagues difficult to say, not to mention the visitors who first came into contact with all of these.

Compared with cultural relics and history itself, the Greater Egypt Museum also emphasizes archeological excavation itself. In the exhibition area, the museum will display more than 100 archeological photos taken by Harry Burton. These precious image data are recorded in the real situation of the Egyptian treasure more than a hundred years ago. In recent years, the Carter Archives of the Cartes of Griffith Institute, which collects the photo, has digitized and re -coloring part of it from black and white to color, and returns history to the true.

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The details in the ancient Egyptian royal family are also vivid and generous to people who come from afar -in addition to conventional protection, exhibitions, records, and research, the museum also specifically mentioned "entertainment" in its mission. One, I hope to meet the needs of tourists with the appearance of "world -class, enthusiastic guests and vitality", thereby inspiring tourists' curiosity and bringing new experiences to discover and enjoying cultural fun. The 65 -meter -long staircase in the museum leads to the top floor, and history will start slowly from the "Contemporary Cairo" on the ground floor. Following the climbing of the stairs, when the visitors arrived at the top, the mysterious veil of the ancient Egypt will be completely revealed -through the glass curtain wall, the Giza pyramid group not far away will be at a glance, allowing the exhibition experience to reach unprecedented unprecedentedly unprecedentedly The integrity and richness.

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It is not difficult to find that the actions of the Greater Museum have always revealed independent thinking about historical heritage and modern development. All this exactly forms its unique charm -breaking the historical barriers and reshaping the truth of civilization, does not put the past in the altar and let the sight of the present, tell the spirit of some contemporary deconstruction and breaking The behavior of building a museum itself for more than 20 years, the repair and display of more than 100,000 collections, and revealing the country's pride, nostalgia, and treasure of this country -the main exhibition hall of the museum's main exhibition hall In the center, there is the largest collection of the whole library, the statue of Latinos II.

This red granite statue with a height of about 83 tons was relocated to the museum in 2018. The museum around its gradual completion of itself has a strong sacred meaning in the construction process. On the stairs behind the statue, the statues of 87 veterans and the gods and the residual films of the architectural relics were always presented to people. Under the wrapping of modern thinking, the history of ancient Egypt has become frank, confident and authentic, more specific, and more moving.

Latinos II statue, © https://inews.co.uk

Stairs display map, m GEM

What else is it worth waiting for such masterpieces?It is rumored that the Lao Hufu spent about 20 years to build a pyramid, and the Greater Egypt Museum was officially completed from the project plan to the formal completion, and it took more time to spend longer than this.We have a reason to believe that this "fourth pyramid in Egypt" will make the world stunning and be caught in a deep thinking about history and reality when it appears ...Authorized by the museum.The original articles of public welfare articles, the copyright of the picture belongs to the collector or the creator.

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