It covers an area of 38 acres .. Information about the Sharm el-Sheikh International Museum, which was inaugurated by President El SISI
Today, Saturday, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi inaugurated the Sharm el-Sheikh International Museum, as part of a number of national projects for the development of the Sinai Peninsula.
The Sharm El-Sheikh International Museum is a new tourist destination that has been added to the tourist destinations enjoyed by the city of Sharm El-Sheikh, and was established with the aim of attracting the largest number of tourists coming to Egypt from different nationalities of the world.
Work on the implementation of the project began in 2003, and work on it was suspended in 2011, due to lack of funding to complete the implementation stages, and work on it resumed again in 2018.
The project was built on 192000 square meters, equivalent to about 38 acres, and the construction area is 25709 square meters, equivalent to about 14% of its area, and the rest are green spaces, car parking spaces and open exhibition spaces, and the museum was implemented in two phases, the first phase was completed. President El-Sisi inaugurated it today, at an estimated cost of 812 million pounds.
The museum includes 7 exhibition halls, a landscape, service areas including bazaars, restaurants, entertainment areas, cinemas, a conference hall that can accommodate about 1000 people, in addition to children's and adult libraries and lounges, an outdoor exhibition area, a fountain area, antique crafts shops, and an open theater, And the staff lounge and internal security building.
It contains about 5,200 artifacts, as well as rare statues and a number of rare artifacts in the world.
The museum will exceptionally display 10 artifacts from the treasures of King Tutankhamun, before displaying them in the Grand Egyptian Museum. The museum also includes the most important rare artifacts of mosaics from Alexandria, dating back to the fourth century BC, and a statue of the god "Eros" while he hunts The deer, which is displayed at the entrance to the museum, and another rare statue of the god "Bes" made of incomplete burning clay and was placed in the hall of "Man and Wildlife".
This is in addition to the pieces that were recently discovered in some archaeological sites for the first time to enrich the museum’s display system. The museum display in the Hall of Civilizations includes the inner and outer sarcophagus of East M, "East Im Khub", wife of Panjam II, the priestess of the goddess Isis and the idols Min and Horus in Akhmim, from the family era 21, which was found in the Deir el-Bahari cache.
While the museum includes canopic jars and papyrus papyrus of East Im Khub, and a set of vessels and cosmetics, the head of Queen Hatshepsut that was found in the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut in 1926, in Deir al-Bahari, a group of Tanagra statues of women in different clothes and models, and a group of Sinai heritage.
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