Grand Egyptian Museum

Heneghan Peng · Giza, Egypt · 2025

Key featuresTranslucent stone facade and a grand staircase of statues rising toward views of the pyramids.

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Monumentality
Facade as skin

Architect: Heneghan Peng
Place: Giza, Egypt
Year: 2025
Typology: Museum
Movement: Contemporary
Region: Middle East

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About Grand Egyptian Museum

The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM; Egyptian Arabic: المتحف المصري الكبير el-Matḥaf el-Maṣriyy el-Kebir) is a national archaeological museum in Giza, Egypt. Dedicated to Ancient Egypt and its culture, society, and artifacts, the GEM is the largest museum in the world for a single civilization.

The building design was decided by an architectural competition announced on 7 January 2002. The organisers received 1,557 entries from 82 countries, making it the second largest architectural competition in history. In the second stage of the competition, 20 entries submitted additional information on their designs. Judging was complete by 2 June 2003. The competition was won by architects Róisín Heneghan and Shi-Fu Peng, and their company Heneghan Peng Architects of Ireland; the prize was US$250,000. Heneghan Peng, Buro Happold, Arup and ACE Consulting Engineers (Moharram and Bakhoum) collaborated on the design of the building. The landscape and site masterplan was designed by West 8; the exhibition masterplan, exhibition design, and museology was led by Atelier Brückner. On 2 February 2010, Hill International announced that Egypt's Ministry of Culture had signed a contract with a joint venture of Hill and EHAF Consulting Engineers which, with the support of ITD Egypt, whose involvement was instrumental in winning the bid. The venture will provide project management services during the design and construction of the Grand Egyptian Museum.

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