Egypt
This is a good report on the grandiose plans for the future of Egyptian sites and museums the gentleman makes no mention of the museum of the revolution (snore) but he does mention the museum of the Suez canal (double snore).
- Petrie Museum One Of The Most Unusual In London
The Telegraph (John O' Ceallaigh) It's not hyperbole to say that London is home to many of the world's best museums. Venues such as the British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Science Museum and Design Museum can justly lay claim to being...
- Remaking Egypt's Shelves
Egypt Today (Michael Kaput) With grand plans for a museum in every governorate, the SCA is looking to spring history from its tourist trap. The building that houses the office in charge of the nation’s museums at the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA)...
- New Museums For All
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/777/he2.htm"In an attempt to preserve Egypt's priceless treasures, both stored and newly-discovered, to create the best environment to display them and to release the pressure in some overstuffed museums, the Ministry...
- Plans Unveiled For $550 Million Museum
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=116 "Plans have been announced for the $550 million Great Egyptian Museum, to be established near the Pyramids near Cairo. It will be among the world’s largest museums, and is by far the biggest to be...
- Awful Artifacts Reappear
The fine folks at Egypt's Cairo museum are a little more relieved today from finding two objects believed stolen during the break in at the end of January. The drawing of the Heset vase really does sum up a broken antiquities department including...
Egypt
Plans for the future
This is a good report on the grandiose plans for the future of Egyptian sites and museums the gentleman makes no mention of the museum of the revolution (snore) but he does mention the museum of the Suez canal (double snore).
I am unaware if the 30 year fruition of the Nubia museum is considered good timing if so it will be some time before we see the more luxuriant of these projects while those lesser projects like the jewelry museum are pushed forward.
All these programs seem a little bit of overkill with a little less being more and no doubt a number of these museums will be duds if they ever get off the drawing board. You can have dozens of museums but I find it hard to believe that tourists will pay to see the same objects over and over again especially if they have already visited the Cairo museum or the Grand Egyptian museum or the Civilization museum.
The rest of the museums run the risk of being watered down versions or too provincial to be of any real interest to the general tourist who carries the ultimate purse. Building museums in an effort to educate the Egyptian population about their history is wonderful but looking upon such noble efforts in terms of a profit may be fooling oneself when faced with a museum doomed to be an unvisited subsidized institution.
- Petrie Museum One Of The Most Unusual In London
The Telegraph (John O' Ceallaigh) It's not hyperbole to say that London is home to many of the world's best museums. Venues such as the British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Science Museum and Design Museum can justly lay claim to being...
- Remaking Egypt's Shelves
Egypt Today (Michael Kaput) With grand plans for a museum in every governorate, the SCA is looking to spring history from its tourist trap. The building that houses the office in charge of the nation’s museums at the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA)...
- New Museums For All
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/777/he2.htm"In an attempt to preserve Egypt's priceless treasures, both stored and newly-discovered, to create the best environment to display them and to release the pressure in some overstuffed museums, the Ministry...
- Plans Unveiled For $550 Million Museum
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=116 "Plans have been announced for the $550 million Great Egyptian Museum, to be established near the Pyramids near Cairo. It will be among the world’s largest museums, and is by far the biggest to be...
- Awful Artifacts Reappear
The fine folks at Egypt's Cairo museum are a little more relieved today from finding two objects believed stolen during the break in at the end of January. The drawing of the Heset vase really does sum up a broken antiquities department including...