Egypt
- Culture Ministry Solicits Bids For Grand Egypt Museum's Final Stage
Al Masry Al Youm The Ministry of Culture solicited bids on Thursday from four specialized companies that had won an international competition for carrying out the third and final stage of construction of the Grand Egyptian Museum project. The third stage...
- Update On Grand Egyptian Museum
EMR.com (Peter Reina) Six years after design began and one year after it was completed, Egypt’s Ministry of Culture is almost ready to start construction of the $550-million main building of the Grand Egyptian Museum, near Cairo. Having secured a $390-million...
- Update Re Grand Museum In Cairo
Egypt State Information Service "The second phase of establishing the new Grand Museum is nearing completion," Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni said during the press conference which he held on Monday 25/8/2008 after his meeting with the international...
- More On Ramesses Statue Move
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6831 "Carved in StoneHot off the Da Vinci debate, Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni refused to budge an inch over the planned removal of the statue of Ramses II from Ramses Square. The move is scheduled...
- More Re Japanese Loan For Grand Egyptian Museum
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/793/eg9.htmNevine el-Aref talking on the Al Ahram Weekly website about the previously (somehwat confusingly) mentioned Japanese loan for the construction of the Grand Egyptian Museum. "It was a scenic evening at the Prince...
Egypt
Museum update
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6763
The Egypt Today website has two short features on their Culture 101 page, above, re the establishment of two new museums in Egypt.
New museum in Hurghada
"Hurghada will soon be home to a the first national museum on the Red Sea coast, the Ministry of Culture announced last month, saying the facility will house antiquities discovered in the Eastern Desert. Located on the water’s edge to encompass submerged monuments as well, the 22,000-square-meter facility will have four display halls, artists’ studios and performance spaces. The museum will give tourists heading to Hurghada from abroad the chance to sample the complete spectrum of Egyptian history — from Pharaonic through Islamic eras — at one destination."
Grand Egyptian Museum to open in 2011?
"The government of Japan last month finalized a $300 million loan to Egypt for the construction of the new Grand Egyptian Museum on the Giza Plateau. Japan’s ambassador to Cairo and Minister of International Cooperation Fayza Abul Naga inked the loan agreement at a public signing ceremony. The Ministry of Culture had initially said that construction of the GEM should wrap up by the end of 2009, but the only building block now in place is the foundation stone set by President Hosni Mubarak in 2002.
Farouk Abdel Salam, first undersecretary of the Ministry of Culture, says that construction will start soon, adding that he expects the GEM to be ready for its first guests in 2011. "
The Egypt Today website has two short features on their Culture 101 page, above, re the establishment of two new museums in Egypt.
New museum in Hurghada
"Hurghada will soon be home to a the first national museum on the Red Sea coast, the Ministry of Culture announced last month, saying the facility will house antiquities discovered in the Eastern Desert. Located on the water’s edge to encompass submerged monuments as well, the 22,000-square-meter facility will have four display halls, artists’ studios and performance spaces. The museum will give tourists heading to Hurghada from abroad the chance to sample the complete spectrum of Egyptian history — from Pharaonic through Islamic eras — at one destination."
Grand Egyptian Museum to open in 2011?
"The government of Japan last month finalized a $300 million loan to Egypt for the construction of the new Grand Egyptian Museum on the Giza Plateau. Japan’s ambassador to Cairo and Minister of International Cooperation Fayza Abul Naga inked the loan agreement at a public signing ceremony. The Ministry of Culture had initially said that construction of the GEM should wrap up by the end of 2009, but the only building block now in place is the foundation stone set by President Hosni Mubarak in 2002.
Farouk Abdel Salam, first undersecretary of the Ministry of Culture, says that construction will start soon, adding that he expects the GEM to be ready for its first guests in 2011. "
- Culture Ministry Solicits Bids For Grand Egypt Museum's Final Stage
Al Masry Al Youm The Ministry of Culture solicited bids on Thursday from four specialized companies that had won an international competition for carrying out the third and final stage of construction of the Grand Egyptian Museum project. The third stage...
- Update On Grand Egyptian Museum
EMR.com (Peter Reina) Six years after design began and one year after it was completed, Egypt’s Ministry of Culture is almost ready to start construction of the $550-million main building of the Grand Egyptian Museum, near Cairo. Having secured a $390-million...
- Update Re Grand Museum In Cairo
Egypt State Information Service "The second phase of establishing the new Grand Museum is nearing completion," Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni said during the press conference which he held on Monday 25/8/2008 after his meeting with the international...
- More On Ramesses Statue Move
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6831 "Carved in StoneHot off the Da Vinci debate, Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni refused to budge an inch over the planned removal of the statue of Ramses II from Ramses Square. The move is scheduled...
- More Re Japanese Loan For Grand Egyptian Museum
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/793/eg9.htmNevine el-Aref talking on the Al Ahram Weekly website about the previously (somehwat confusingly) mentioned Japanese loan for the construction of the Grand Egyptian Museum. "It was a scenic evening at the Prince...