One of the big events to come in Cairo is the official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM). It’s been a long time in the making. The museum was announced in 1992, construction began in 2005, and will be fully completed by its official opening near the pyramids of Giza on November 1st. Together with the old Egyptian museum in downtown Cairo, it will have one of the greatest collections of ancient artifacts and GEM itself will be the largest museum in the world dedicated to a single civilization. We have gone to the museum twice and, despite the absence still of the 5,000 items of the King Tut collection (including the stunning gold mask!), it is a beautiful, beautiful museum.
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