Explore the Grand Egyptian Museum in Half a Day

The Grand Egyptian Museum ( in English : GEM - Grand Egyptian Museum ) is located a few miles west of Cairo , near the Pyramids of Giza . It is being built to be the world's largest museum of antiquities, accommodating 5 million visitors annually. In addition to the commercial and entertainment services buildings, the restoration center, and the museum garden, in which trees that were known to the ancient Egyptians will be planted. Egypt launched a campaign to finance the project, the most prominent contributor to which was the Japanese agency JICA , with soft loans. The museum is scheduled to include more than 100,000 artifacts from the Pharaonic, Greek and Roman eras , which will give a major boost to the tourism sector in Egypt . The Grand Egyptian Museum opened the Immersive Tutankhamun Exhibition, through which visitors can embark on a journey with the golden King Tutankhamun, who dazzled the world with his tomb.