Prime Minister Sherif Ismail issued on Monday a decision to form a general authority for the under-construction Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) and comes under the authority of Ministry of Antiquities, Youm7 reported.
During the past few years, the GEM received thousands of artifacts from several museums and archaeological sites ahead of its inauguration of the first phase scheduled for 2017.
Built over 120 acres of land, GEM is located 2 km southwest of the Giza Pyramids and was scheduled to be inaugurated in August 2015, but due to funding issues it has been delayed until August 2018.
The construction of the three-phase project, which includes the construction of the museum’s main building and implementation of the master plan, landscape parks and surrounding site infrastructure, began in March 2012. Two phases have currently been completed.
