Egypt on Saturday is inaugurating the Grand Egyptian Museum, aiming to boost tourism and revitalize the economy.

The Grand Egyptian Museum will have more than 100,000 artefacts on display, from Tutankhamun’s tomb treasures to pharaoh Khufu’s famed ‘solar boat’.View on euronews

Egyptian officials are hoping the inauguration of a vast new museum on Saturday will accelerate the revival of a tourism industry hampered for more than

Egypt is preparing to inaugurate its new Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in an official ceremony after multiple delays. Construction began in 2005, and the museum entered a partial trial opening phase in 2024. The official inauguration, originally scheduled for July 3, 2025, was postponed to the last quarter of the year due to regional conflicts.

Their design was envisioned as a bridge between ancient history and modern innovation. ‘Designing a museum of this calibre, in such close proximity to a landmark as monumental and symbolic as the pyramids,

The Grand Egyptian Museum, decades in the making, hopes to show off a nation’s history on the biggest scale possible