Egypt
- Second Phase Of Grand Egyptian Museum Finalized In March
Egypt State Information Service Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni said the Grand Egyptian Museum near the Cairo-Alexandria desert road is being carried out on 117 feddans and is expected to be the biggest in the world. The second phase includes a center...
- At The Intersection Of Modernity And Antiquity
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/1/ (The story on this URL will expire shortly) Article by Hassan Saadallah on the Egyptian Gazette website about the new Egyptian Grand Museum. I've reproduced the article in full because it will not be archived...
- Tutankhamun - Closing Stats
http://tinyurl.com/8tqkz "With a closing rush, King Tut's tally at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art reached 937,613 visitors, museum officials said Monday — the second-largest audience for any museum exhibition after the 1.25 million who saw...
- Ticket Prices And Tutankhamun
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12921152.htm An article about the financing of the Tutankhamun exhibition: "New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which hosted the Treasures of Tutankhamen in 1978 and helped organize the original tour, declined...
- What Will Happen To Revenues From Tutankhamun?
http://www.cairomagazine.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=1117&format=html A fascinating article from the Cairo Magazine about how much money is being generated by the Tutankhamun touring exhibtion, and what might happen to the money when the tour...
Egypt
Egypt sorely in need of new site
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-kingtut8aug08,0,4930516.story?coll=cl-home-more-channels#Scene_1
A review of some of the costs and benefits associated with the planned Grand Museum in Cairo: "The U.S. portion of the traveling King Tut exhibition is expected to raise more than $36 million for the new museum, Hawass said in a recent interview. The tour, organized jointly with commercial entertainment firms, represents the increasing drive to use private capital to market the country's archeological scene.Still, revenue from the tour falls far short of financing the new museum's huge cost. With only $100 million coming from the Egyptian Culture Ministry, Mansour hopes international cultural institutions and foreign governments will step in with the rest of the money the project needs. Negotiations are continuing between the Japanese Bank for International Development and the Egyptian government to get a low-interest loan for $300 million". See the rest of the article for more.
- Second Phase Of Grand Egyptian Museum Finalized In March
Egypt State Information Service Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni said the Grand Egyptian Museum near the Cairo-Alexandria desert road is being carried out on 117 feddans and is expected to be the biggest in the world. The second phase includes a center...
- At The Intersection Of Modernity And Antiquity
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/1/ (The story on this URL will expire shortly) Article by Hassan Saadallah on the Egyptian Gazette website about the new Egyptian Grand Museum. I've reproduced the article in full because it will not be archived...
- Tutankhamun - Closing Stats
http://tinyurl.com/8tqkz "With a closing rush, King Tut's tally at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art reached 937,613 visitors, museum officials said Monday — the second-largest audience for any museum exhibition after the 1.25 million who saw...
- Ticket Prices And Tutankhamun
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12921152.htm An article about the financing of the Tutankhamun exhibition: "New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which hosted the Treasures of Tutankhamen in 1978 and helped organize the original tour, declined...
- What Will Happen To Revenues From Tutankhamun?
http://www.cairomagazine.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=1117&format=html A fascinating article from the Cairo Magazine about how much money is being generated by the Tutankhamun touring exhibtion, and what might happen to the money when the tour...