80% of the engineering work of the Sharm el-Sheikh Museum has been completed

culture

The work of the Sharm el-Sheikh Museum, which is due to open in 2019, is going on regularly, with nearly 80% of the engineering works of the two houses being opened soon, Engineer Wahed Abu El-Ela, head of the projects sector, revealed.

The head of the projects sector in special remarks for the "seventh day", that the remaining works are only minor finishes such as electronics work, for example, and will be completed as soon as possible, in preparation for the opening of the queue during the year 2019, pointing out that the development work in the museum Sharm el-Sheikh has been suspended since 2011, and the reason for the lack of financial resources for the project at the time, where he spent about 188 million pounds before January 2011, and of course at the current time increased expenditures more than doubled, where the Advisory Committee estimated the expenses needed by the project, which Reached more than 800 million pounds.

The museum is located on the airport road on an area of ​​191.000 m 2. The building consists of 6 halls, a conference hall, a podium, a number of handicraft shops, an open theater and a number of restaurants. The museum is the first archaeological museum, cultural center and tourist destination. After a permanent halt of about 8 years in the wake of the revolution of January 2011 because of the lack of funds, noting that the work is now finishing the work of architectural finishes in the showrooms, cafeterias and shops, which are 17 shops in addition to 11 shops of the archaeological and heritage Of.

The Sharm el-Sheikh Museum includes six large halls, two of which will be displayed alongside the museum-related stores. The museum can accommodate 20,000 artifacts, a variety of pharaonic, Islamic and Coptic monuments.

The exhibition will revolve around the various civilizations in general and the ancient Egyptian civilization in particular, in order to shed light on other civilizations, due to the different visitors to the Sharm El Sheikh Museum, which are supposed to be of different nationalities.

The Sharm el-Sheikh Museum will include nearly 700 artifacts in its first floor. In the second hall, approximately 500 artifacts will be selected from the stores of the Egyptian Museum of Liberation and museum stores in several archaeological sites.

The Museum Scenario Scenario Committee has also prepared the method of distributing artifacts within the Sharm el-Sheikh museum. The pieces will be selected from the museum stores and the Egyptian Museum of Liberation, in accordance with the tourist taste located in Sharm el-Sheikh..