The Grand Egyptian Museum is now officially open The Grand Egyptian Museum is now officially open

The Grand Egyptian Museum is now officially open.

Following on from a grand opening ceremony on 1 November, the long-awaited museum has reopened to the public as of 4 November.

The museum, found around 2 km from the Giza pyramid complex, had been partially open since October 2024, with visitors able to explore the 12 main galleries. Now, guests can wander the much-anticipated Tutankhamun Galleries as well as Khufu’s Boats Museum.

The Tutankhamun Galleries contain the full collection of artefacts found within the boy king’s near-intact tomb, which was famously rediscovered by British Egyptologist Howard Carter in 1922. That amounts to more than 5,000 objects.

Within the Khufu’s Boats Museum, visitors can see the two ships found sealed in a pit part of the Great Pyramid of Giza which served as the tomb for Pharaoh Khufu. Known as solar barque, it is believed the vessels were created to carry Khufu into the afterlife alongside the sun god Ra, and date back to around 2500 BC.

One of the ships has been fully restored, while the other is still being worked on – which you can see happening in real-time on your visit.

As a whole, the museum contains more than 100,000 objects, including the world’s only Hanging Obelisk, which has been relocated from Tanis, an archaeological site in the north eastern Nile Delta, to the Grand Egyptian Museum’s entrance. Along the Grand Staircase Gallery, there are more than 60 statues and objects across a number of themes, including Royal Image, Divine Houses, Gods & Kings, and Journey to Eternity.

The 12 main galleries are split chronologically, and then into three themes: Society, Kingship, and Beliefs. The first section covers from the Prehistoric Period up until the First Intermediate Period; the second, the Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period; the third, the New Kingdom; and the fourth, the Third Intermediate Period, the Late Period and the Graeco-Roman Period.

Tickets, which start from EGP1,200 (£19) for adults, are available online on the Visit GEM website.

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