Director of the Administrative Capital Library: The Grand Egyptian Museum is a genius building and fragrant with ancient history
Dr. Zein Abdel Hadi, the writer and academic director of the New Administrative Capital Library, said that the design of the Grand Egyptian Museum took approximately 23 years, and thanks to the emergence of new technologies, it was possible to present an open and effective museum display, and to move away from the philosophy of closed glass boxes that stand as an artificial barrier to understanding cultural history. It was necessary to change the entire method of museum display, so that guests and visitors feel that they are living inside the ancient cities of Egypt, feel what was happening in them, and are affected by their lives, which imposes new feelings that were not previously present in the display.
Abdul Hadi added – in a special statement to the Middle East News Agency today, Thursday – that President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi wanted the open museum display in the design of the museum to focus on the history of Egyptian civilization and the pleasure desired for visitors of all ages, and to transform history into pleasure and knowledge and get rid of the traditional display method of museums and not present to the world just a museum like the one found in other countries, even advanced ones, but rather present a new philosophy and a new world worthy of the new republic that we seek to build, and a world Completely, if the visitor enters it, he will emerge with new knowledge, new enjoyment, and a different view of the ancient Egyptian civilization through this genius building, the legendary halls, and the fragrant history of Egyptian civilization.
He stressed that Egypt was able to build an extremely rare museum in the New Republic, pointing out that the general building of the Grand Egyptian Museum has an aesthetic shape and structure, and this is clearly evident in the inclined glass facade and the great staircase overlooking the pyramids, and that The design of the specialized interior halls has become visual-narrative scenes that compete with the most modern international museums, and even surpass them in terms of open display space, amazing display techniques, and the technology used to achieve the philosophy of a new and rare museum presented to the world for the first time in history, away from traditional display boxes.
He pointed out that the display method in the King Tutankhamun Hall is based on elaborate scenography that relies on dramatic lighting that gradually hides and reveals the pieces, with rotating platforms to display the three war chariots, In addition to walls of metal fibers coated with black titanium oxide to absorb light and purify the golden color, the hall now resembles an electric theater more than an exhibition hall. Where the visitor goes through the experience of gradual discovery.
He pointed out that the design of the great staircase is not just simple concrete stairs leading to the upper floors, but rather an interactive, moving staircase that includes an open archaeological scene, so that the staircase becomes an exhibition hall in motion; Where the visitor ascends among the ancient Egyptian sculptures, scenes, and statues as if he were in a suspended ancient Egyptian procession, pointing to the Children’s Museum, which was designed according to the new aesthetic idea that stipulated the importance of moving from information to adventure. An illuminated time tunnel was created with an interactive floor that responds to footsteps and shows ancient animals or gods. All of this was built in the style of scenography, and thus the Children’s Hall became a miniature city that the child entered happily and left having loved history without duty.
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