facing pyramids of giza, grand egyptian museum set to open

The Grand Egyptian Museum by heneghan peng architects has reached completion, standing just over a mile from the Pyramids of Giza. The vast complex is located on a desert plateau at the edge of Cairo, and stands as a bridge between the past and the present of the world’s most enduring civilizations. Housing 100,000 artifacts, it is the largest museum ever dedicated to a single culture. From its entrance forecourt, the Museum extends outward toward the pyramids along a precise visual axis. The roofline rises in correspondence with the horizon of the three pyramids but never overtakes them. This composition frames the monuments as an ever-present backdrop, visible from within the museum’s grand rooms.

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