Thursday 03/April/2025 – 05:01 AM
The Egyptian Museum administration has published, through its official Facebook page, rare black and white photos from laying its foundation stone.
The Egyptian Museum Administration commented on the editorial on the photos, saying: By 1869, the Bulaq Museum building was expanded, and it continued on the same area until the catastrophic nons of Nile flood Ismail Pasha Palace for its use as a museum to display huge artifacts, along with its lack of restoration and maintenance lab, library and administrative offices.
Design a new Egyptian museum
The administration of the Egyptian Museum of the Egyptian Museum added that between 1893 and 1895, the Ministry of Public Works announced an international competition to design a new Egyptian museum and award a prize of 1,000 Egyptian pounds to the winner of this design, and the modern museum was to be built in the city center in Ismailia Square (currently Tahrir Square) between the Nile and the British Nile Palace barracks, and eighty -seven were presented as a proposal for the new building project. Choose a design for a modern classic building by French architect Marcel Durnion.
The foundation stone for the Egyptian Museum was laid on April 1, 1897, in the presence of Khedive Abbas Hilmi II, and the new museum occupied an area of 15,000 square meters and its cost was about 240 thousand pounds at that time, and the Egyptian newspaper Al -Ahram announced the official opening of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo on November 15, 1902 AD.
