{"id":15055,"date":"2019-06-17T13:48:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T09:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alowais.com\/?p=15055"},"modified":"2019-06-17T13:52:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T09:52:57","slug":"1762019-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alowais.com\/en\/1762019-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Cairo&#8217;s &#8216;mother of Egyptian museums&#8217; set for revamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0Egypt on Sunday launched a revamp of the Egyptian Museum, promising to preserve and enhance the storied site even as it loses its most famous collection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Located in the heart of Cairo on Tahrir Square, the Egyptian Museum has long been the foremost home for the country\u2019s bounteous collection of antiquities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">But it will soon lose some of the treasure from King Tutankhamun\u2019s tomb to the Grand Egyptian Museum, due to open next year next to the Giza pyramids, while a collection of royal mummies is being transferred to another new site in Cairo, the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The initial restructuring of the Egyptian Museum will include the redisplay of several galleries near the entrance and the relocation of the Tanis Royal Tombs to the space vacated by the Tutankhamun collection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Financed by 3.1 million euros of EU funding and backed by a consortium of five European museums including the British Museum and the Louvre, the project will also develop a long-term vision for the museum and, officials hope, allow it to win a listing as a UNESCO world heritage site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Egyptian Antiquities Minister Khaled El-Enany repeated a promise that new museums would not pose a threat, and that the Egyptian Museum, which houses more than 150,000 objects, should get \u201call the support and attention it deserves\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe time has come to shed a new light on the museum\u2019s rich collection, upgrade its physical structure and improve its research and programing activities to reach the highest international standards,\u201d he told a launch event in the museum\u2019s garden.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The apparently casual management and display of artefacts at the Egyptian Museum surprises some visitors. In 2014 employees damaged King Tutankhamun\u2019s golden burial mask by gluing its dislodged beard back on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">But it charms many others with its old-fashioned feel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Some display cases date back to the mid-19th century when the collections were displayed elsewhere in Cairo, and there are signs have not been changed since the museum opened in 1902, museum director Sabah Abdel Razek Saddik said.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">For Egyptologists, the museum is the \u201cmother\u201d of Egyptian museums, said Friederike Seyfried, director of the Egyptian Museum of Berlin, which is also participating in the project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cNothing can be compared with the Egyptian Museum at Tahrir and this will never change,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cNew-build museums will be beacons of modern achievements in museology but the Egyptian museum at Tahrir reflects the history of our science.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Tourism is a key sector in Egypt\u2019s economy and a major source of foreign revenue. It has been gradually recovering from the political turmoil and security problems that followed the \u201cArab Spring\u201d civil unrest of 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Enany said he was aggrieved that Egypt had to confront the continued loss of antiquities through looting and smuggling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The government is currently battling to prevent the auction of\u00a0an 18th Dynasty quartzite sculpture god Amen in the likeness of\u00a0King Tutankhamun\u00a0scheduled for next month at Christie\u2019s in London.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI\u2019m deeply saddened to see every now and then some Egyptian antiquities put on sale in the international market. We have succeeded in the ministry in the last few years in repatriating thousands of objects and will continue to do so,\u201d Enany said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">He appealed to foreign ambassadors and cultural attaches, international organizations, and UNESCO \u201cto join efforts to stop the looting, selling and illicit trafficking of antiquities\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">reuters<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Egypt on Sunday launched a revamp of the Egyptian Museum, promising to preserve and enhance the storied site even as it loses its most famous collection. Located in the heart of Cairo on Tahrir Square, the Egyptian Museum has long been the foremost home for the country\u2019s bounteous collection of antiquities. 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