Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref)
- Mrs Mubarak To Open 1st Phases Of Egyptian Grand Museum Project
Egypt State Information Service Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak will open on May 27th 2010 the first and second phases of the Grand Egyptian Museum project. These two stages include the basic foundations at the museum’s location, the establishment of the World...
- Heritage Management: Unesco's New Director-general
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El Aref) Irina Bokova, the newly appointed UNESCO director-general, visited Egypt on 5 December to attend the first meeting of the permanent Forum of Arab-African Dialogue on Democracy and Human Rights after being invited by Boutros...
- Ottoman Museum Reopens
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) During his tour of the Delta town of Rosetta to inaugurate development projects in the area, President Hosni Mubarak, along with Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif; Culture Minister Farouk Hosni; Zahi Hawass secretary- general...
- More On Opening Of Coptic Museum
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/801/eg1.htm"Mogamaa Al-Adian, Old Cairo's religious compound, is finally free of the roar of trucks and lorries that have blocked the entrance to the Coptic Museum for three years now. And the museum itself, with its...
- Grand Egyptian Museum
http://tinyurl.com/9bm52 "Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni said that the first two sites in the Grand Egyptian Museum which the ministry establishes at Cairo, Alexandria desert road will be inaugurated early next year. The two sites are the power station...
Egypt
More on first stages of Grand Egyptian Museum
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref)
From the moment President Hosni Mubarak laid the foundation stone in February 2002 there was no doubting the scale of the ambition. The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) was always intended to be an architectural masterpiece, a fit home for the display of the most outstanding objects produced by Egypt's 7,000 years old civilisation.
On Monday, after eight years of work, the first two phases of the project -- including a power plant, fire station, fully equipped conservation centre with 12 labs and four storage galleries -- were inaugurated. Mrs Suzanne Mubarak attended the opening ceremony and was given a tour of the conservation centre guided by Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni and Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) Zahi Hawass. She was accompanied by Minister of Education Ahmed Zaki Badr, Minister of Housing Ahmed El-Maghrabi, and columnists Salah Montasser and Anis Mansour.
- Mrs Mubarak To Open 1st Phases Of Egyptian Grand Museum Project
Egypt State Information Service Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak will open on May 27th 2010 the first and second phases of the Grand Egyptian Museum project. These two stages include the basic foundations at the museum’s location, the establishment of the World...
- Heritage Management: Unesco's New Director-general
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El Aref) Irina Bokova, the newly appointed UNESCO director-general, visited Egypt on 5 December to attend the first meeting of the permanent Forum of Arab-African Dialogue on Democracy and Human Rights after being invited by Boutros...
- Ottoman Museum Reopens
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) During his tour of the Delta town of Rosetta to inaugurate development projects in the area, President Hosni Mubarak, along with Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif; Culture Minister Farouk Hosni; Zahi Hawass secretary- general...
- More On Opening Of Coptic Museum
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/801/eg1.htm"Mogamaa Al-Adian, Old Cairo's religious compound, is finally free of the roar of trucks and lorries that have blocked the entrance to the Coptic Museum for three years now. And the museum itself, with its...
- Grand Egyptian Museum
http://tinyurl.com/9bm52 "Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni said that the first two sites in the Grand Egyptian Museum which the ministry establishes at Cairo, Alexandria desert road will be inaugurated early next year. The two sites are the power station...