Overview
- The museum opened to visitors on Tuesday, November 4, following a November 1 inauguration led by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and attended by royals and heads of state.
- For the first time since 1922, almost the entire Tutankhamun assemblage—more than 4,500 items—is displayed together in a dedicated gallery, while the pharaoh’s mummy remains in Luxor.
- Early attendance reached 5,000–6,000 visitors per day, with a 20,000 daily cap in place; officials project roughly 5–7 million visitors annually.
- Signature displays include the Ramses II colossus in the atrium and the Khufu funerary boat, with a second solar boat being reassembled in a visible restoration lab.
- Designed by Heneghan Peng and backed by major Japanese financing, the 500,000-square-meter complex beside the Giza pyramids houses around 100,000 artifacts and the region’s largest conservation center.