Announced in 1992 and expected to be finished at the end of this year, the Grand Egyptian museum, complete with sculpture gardens and an entrance marked with a huge statue of Ramses II, is going to be the largest archeological museum in the world (Sattin 2020). It is expected to attract over 7 million visitors a year. It makes use of a 162-foot elevation change between the Nile valley and the Giza plateau and is built on a slope. It is triangular in shape and grows as the visitors get closer to the pyraminds. The building is divided into four galleries and ends with large windows that look over the pyramids. There was an architecture competition to decide the design of the building and Heneghan won the competition. The main material used for the building is alabaster with supports of metal.

Sattin, A. (2020, January 16). Everything We Know About Cairo’s New Grand Egyptian Museum. Retrieved March 24, 2020, from https://www.cntraveler.com/story/grand-egyptian-museum-cairo-everything-we-know