Overview
- President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi inaugurated the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza during a ceremony attended by 79 official delegations including royalty and heads of state.
- For the first time the complete Tutankhamun funerary collection is displayed together, while the pharaoh’s mummy remains in the Valley of the Kings under current exhibition policy.
- The 490,000-square-meter museum houses over 100,000 artifacts with highlights such as the Grand Atrium’s Hanging Obelisk, the Ramses II statue, the Khufu boat museum, a major conservation center and a children’s museum.
- Officials project a tourism boost, with the tourism minister targeting about 18 million visitors to Egypt this year and experts estimating roughly 5 million annual visits to the museum.
- A viral wave of pharaonic-style AI portraits by Egyptians on platforms such as Google Gemini led the company to offer temporary promotional subscriptions in the local market.