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Nevine el-Aref – Ahram Online
Around 20 items, from the ‘Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh’ exhibition’s 166 pieces, will be displayed at Hurghada Museum and Sharm El-Sheikh Museum.
The exhibition has been touring abroad for the past two years. Due to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic and the precautionary measures taken in London, the third city of the touring exhibition was closed in March, 44 days before it was planned to end.
Mostafa Waziri, the secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), and the board of directors of the SCA decided that the exhibition should return to Egypt. The artefacts arrived in Egypt on Friday morning.
The board decided to select 20 items to be exhibited temporarily in Hurghada and Sharm El-Sheikh museums in an attempt to promote both museums and cities, before being transported to their permanent display at the Grand Egyptian Museum, which is planned to open in 2021.
“The statue of ‘Ka’, the consort of King Tutankhamun, will be the masterpiece of Sharm El-Sheikh Museum and the gilded wooden statue of god ‘Ptah’ will be the masterpiece at the Hurghada Museum”, said Mo’amen Othman, head of the Tourism ministry’s Museum Sector.
Hurghada Museum was recently opened, while Sharm El-Sheikh Museum is set to open later this year.
