Overview
- The public opening is scheduled for Tuesday, November 4, with roughly 4,500 funerary objects on view from a corpus previously dispersed across Egypt, led by Tutankhamun’s treasures.
- About 80 official delegations were expected for the ceremony, including 40 led by kings, princes, or heads of state or government, according to the Foreign Ministry.
- Officials tout a target of roughly five million visitors per year as the museum is leveraged to boost cultural tourism revenues.
- Designed by Heneghan Peng, the 470,000‑square‑meter complex houses around 100,000 artifacts with about half slated for display, extensive labs, and researcher facilities.
- A towering 11‑meter, 83‑ton statue of Ramses II anchors the atrium as recent antiquities thefts, including a 3,000‑year‑old gold bracelet, put security under scrutiny.