Grand Egyptian Museum

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The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) will be built by 2007–2010 at the cost of $US 350M. The museum will be sited on 50 hectares of land in Giza and is part of a new master plan for the plateau. On January 5, 2002 Egyptian President Mubarak laid the foundation stone. The museum site is about three kilometers from the Giza pyramids. The building is designed by Heneghan Peng Architects, with engineering services provided by Buro Happold.

On August 25, 2006 the Statue of Ramesses II was moved from Ramses Square in Cairo to the Giza Plateau, in anticipation of construction of the GEM. The Statue of Ramesses II, estimated to be approximately 3,200 years old, will be cleaned and touched up, and will be situated at the entrance of the GEM by 2010.

[edit] See also

• Egyptian Museum of Turin
• Egyptian Museum of Berlin
• Cairo Museum

[edit] External links

• Official website
• Egyptsites
• Egypt's next big thing