The Egyptian Museum is getting a facelift

The Egyptian Museum is getting a facelift: The Egyptian Museum will be revamped as authorities prepare to move some of the country’s most treasured antiquities to the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, due to open by the end of next year. The EUR 3.1 mn project will see several galleries relocated to near the museum’s entrance and the Tanis Royal Tombs moved to the space that used to house the Tutankhamun collection. “The time has come to shed new light on the museum’s rich collection, upgrade its physical structure and improve its research and programming activities,” Antiquities Minister Khaled El Enany said yesterday. Reuters has the story.