A Museum for Tutankhamun: A Proposal to Transfer Tutankhamun’s Treasures to Giza in 1975-1976

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Department of Tourism Guidance - University of Sadat City

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The present article focuses on the proposal to transfer Tutankhamun’s collection from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo to a new exhibiting place in 1975-1976 as an attempt to clear a space in the Egyptian Museum for the other collections to be displayed in a modern manner and to solve the issue of artifacts overcrowding. Giza was proposed to be the new home of Tutankhamun’s objects for many justifications. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York proposed a promising project with suggestions regarding the site, the museum designs, the itinerary of the tour within the proposed museum, the construction costs and the anticipated revenues. This project collided with the aspirations of President Sadat to construct a new cultural center on the site of the former Turah prison which he demolished in 1975. The transfer of Tutankhamun’s artifacts from the Egyptian Museum was therefore postponed until the new Grand Egyptian Museum has recently been built. This paper utilizes primary source documents in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives in New York.

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International Journal of Tourism, Archaeology and Hospitality
Volume 3, Issue 2
July 2023
Pages 219-246

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