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A GEM of a Nation
The Grand Egyptian Museum
The much-awaited Grand Egyptian GEM project when the 1902-built Egyptian
Museum, or GEM, opened on November 1, Museum Cairo (EMC) became cramped
2025. It is the world’s largest archaeological with visitors and the 100,000 artifacts in
museum for a single civilization. The GEM its collection. Heneghan Peng Architects
offers a journey into millennia of Egypt’s won the international competition in 2003.
history and serves as an inspiration for However, it eventually took 20 years and
indigenous communities today on how to US$1 billion to construct the complex
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explore and preserve their own heritages. spanning 500,000 m .
The Egyptian government began the The architectural design harmonizes
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