The Great Egyptian Museum trusts Acciona Producciones y Diseño with its museographic execution

The Spanish company will be in charge of the technical development and museographic execution of 12.000 m2, which includes a 3D scan of Tutankhamun's burial chamber.

The Egyptian Ministry of Culture and Besix Orascom Joint Venture have chosen Acciona Producciones y Diseño (APD) to carry out the technical development and museographic implementation of four of the exhibition rooms of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo, for an amount of 11 million euros.

In total, The Spanish company will carry out this work in 12.000 square meters, distributed in four areas of the museum, in which APD will incorporate exhibition elements of various kinds, like graphics, models, reproductions of full-scale elements and exhibition and scenographic lighting, “that will support the museographic discourse and contextualize the archaeological pieces”, As your statement points out.

Besides, APD to carry out three-dimensional scanning of Tutankhamun's outer burial chamber, which will allow obtaining a digital model exact to the original that allows its physical reproduction to later be displayed in the museum.

Estimates of visitors to the museum are estimated at five million a year. (some 15.000 diaries). The Grand Egyptian Museum will be the largest archaeological museum in the world by housing 45.000 pieces -of which 25.000 They have never been exposed, showing the history of Ancient Egypt, from prehistory to the Greco-Roman period.

The museum is located two kilometers from the pyramids of Giza and will occupy an area of ​​about 50 hectares (500.000 m2). Some of its rooms can be visited in 2019 and its final inauguration is scheduled at the end of 2020.

In Egypt, Acciona Producciones y Diseño is also responsible for the light and sound show. Sound & Light Show, which is projected on the temple of Abu Simbel (Egypt) since the year 1999.