DATE:
2022
CLIENT:
Besix Orascom JV for the Egyptian Ministry of Culture
SERVICES:
Technical development and museographic implementation
SURFACE AREA:
12.000 m2
The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is the world’s largest museum dedicated to one civilization. Designed by Heneghan Peng Architects, it occupies a total area of more than 90,000 square metres, and is located two kilometers from the pyramids of Giza.
ACCIONA Cultura’s work focused on 4 privileged places of the museum: the main access axis, the Atrium with an over eleven-meter-high statue of Ramses II; the Grand Stairs, 180-metre-long backbone of the museum with large sculptures; the Children’s Museum with 3,500 square metres of exhibition space, a space composed by many interactive elements, games and didactic and audiovisual resources; and, finally, the jewel of the crown, the Tutankhamun Gallery. It has 7,500 square metres of exhibition space and showcases 5,400 artefacts – including around 3,000 that have not been seen before.
In these areas, ACCIONA Cultura incorporated a variety of exhibition elements, such as graphics, models, life-sized reproductions and exhibition and staging lighting and elements to support the museum narrative and contextualize the archaeological pieces. It also conducted a three-dimensional scan of Tutankhamun’s outer burial chamber, to provide an exact digital model of the original.