The Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo is Finally Open, Displaying Countless Treasures for the First Time

The Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo, a project nearly 25 years in the making, has finally opened to the public after considerable delays. On November 1, visitors were able to explore all of the museum’s 968,000 square feet of space for the first time.Plans for the museum were announced in 1992, and construction began in 2002. A dozen of GEM’s main galleries opened to the public in October 2024. The rest were unveiled on Saturday. The 80,000-square-foot gallery housing all 5,600 burial