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02/03/2025
Grand Egyptian Museum
JUST OPENED OCT 2024
100,000 artifacts spanning 7,000 years
Alexandria Desert Rd, Kafr Nassar, Al Haram,
Giza Governorate 3513203, Egypt
Across the lobby, past Ramses II, an escalator
takes you up the grand staircase past sculptures
of some of the great rulers, past some of their
stone sarcophagi, past gods and goddesses to a
huge picture window which frames the pyramids.
It is also a journey from the Nile floodplain
to the Giza plateau, from what was fertile
to the desert, from the lobby to the
12 opened galleries.
Ancient Egyptian art is so exquisite, so perfect
in form, function and finish, so in line with
our ideas of beauty that you could take anything
out of the old museum’s dusty display cases,
mount and light it properly and it will
look exceptional.
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This is what curators have done and the effect
is dazzling, perhaps nowhere more so than
with the treasures of Queen Hetepheres, mother
of the builder of the Great Pyramid. The queen’s
treasures had been on show in a dark side chamber
in the old museum, where few people paid them
much attention. Now, brought to light, the queen’s
armchair, alabaster sarcophagus, bed and a box
with her bangles look magnificent.
The dozen galleries are arranged chronologically
over 3,000 years, from pre-history and the Old
Kingdom through the Middle and New Kingdoms to
the Greeks and Romans.
Objects from each period are divided into
“Society”, “Kingship” and “Beliefs”. Now, just
hours after seeing the collection, it is the
objects from Society that stand out sharpest.
A shard of stone painted with
a couple embracing, the mirrors that once
reflected ancient faces, what Mousa called
“the guardian mothers” who were protective
deities and also expressed the power of women
in ancient Egypt, a scrap of linen wrapped
around small funerary figures, pieces of
papyrus written by uneven hand … these, the
human traces, have left their mark.
