A Grand Opening
René Ammann | 10. November 2025
The Grand Egyptian Museum, designed by Dublin's heneghan peng architects, officially opened on November 1, 2025. (Photo: Georges & Samuel Mohsen – The GS Studio)
Number of years it took to construct and open the entire complex of the Grand Egyptian Museum close to Giza, spanning 500,000 square meters (5.4m sf), costing some $1.2bn (€1.1bn), and showing some 100,000 ancient Egyptian artifacts—but not (yet) the Rosetta Stone at the British Museum, the Zodiac at the Louvre, and the Bust of Nefertiti in Berlin: 20
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Photo courtesy of Grand Egyptian Museum