Client
Egyptian Ministry of Culture
Architect
Heneghan Peng Architects
Stake Holders
Heneghan Peng Architects, Arup, National Defence Commitee
Background Information
The Museum of Egypt is a Joint Venture (JV) between Heneghan Peng Architects the lead architects, Buro Happold and Arups. The project started in 2003, with a movie showing the vision of the clients being promulgated.
Situated on a plateau between the modern city of Cairo and the ancient pyramids of Giza, the Grand Museum of Egypt will be home to over 150,000 artefacts. Amongst these are the treasures of King Tutankhamun, many of which will be on public display for the first time having spent years preserved in storage since their discovery by Howard Carter in 1922.
The 90,000m2 museum, which occupies a 50 hectare site, aims to establish a state-of-the-art complex of facilities providing visitors with access to a broad range of information.
It will incorporate the latest multimedia technologies and is intended to be the first global virtual museum, displaying artefacts physically in the museum and also virtually, hosting items from European collections.
Project objectives
Happold Safe & Secure designed a security strategy in line with the TC and the National Defence committee (NDC). Additional the security team produced a security master plan, and outlined the security requirements of the physical arrangement for access control within the boundaries of the proposed site.
Key successes
Key successes of the project included providing a security strategy for each submittal phase incorporating new design features and changes.