纽约旅游
There is perhaps no institution on earth whose opening has been as wildly anticipated, or as mind-bogglingly delayed, as the Grand Egyptian Museum outside Cairo, where planned openings have come and gone since 2012, Stephen Hiltner writes.
“Its construction has been such a fiasco — mired by funding lapses, logistical hurdles, a pandemic, nearby wars, revolutions (yes, plural) — that it begs comparison to that of the pyramids that lie just over a mile away on the Giza Plateau.”
When Hiltner visited in mid-February,11 of the 12 main exhibition galleries, the cavernous entrance hall and a broad staircase strewn with dozens of artifacts were open. But the museum’s biggest draw, the Tutankhamen galleries, which will showcase more than 5,000 artifacts from the boy king’s tomb, remained closed, as did a separate annex that will showcase two royal boats discovered near the Great Pyramid in 1954. Those parts of the museum are expected to open on July 3. “You might take that date with a grain or two of salt,” Hiltner writes.
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