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The Seated Scribe, one of the most famous monuments in Egyptian history, is one of at least 21 items in the exhibition that have come from the world-famous Egyptian museum in central Cairo Photo: Alamy. Source: telegraph.co.uk
Egypt is to open a new museum at Cairo International Airport holding 38 pieces from Egypt’s various historical periods in bid to boost transit tourism, telegraph.co.uk reports.
The museum will inside Cairo airport Monday 7 December in an attempt to attract tourists in transit.
The museum will be located inside Terminal 3 – the exhibition will contain 39 pieces, including ones from the Pharonic, Coptic and Islamic eras, according to officials.
“It aims to give visitors a general idea about the Egyptian civilisation, which will make them want to visit other places in Cairo, like the Egyptian museum,” said Yasmin al-Shazle, an assistant to Egypt’s minister for museum antiquities, to The Telegraph.
The Seated Scribe, one of the most famous monuments in Egyptian history, is one of at least 21 items in the exhibition that have come from the world-famous Egyptian museum in central Cairo.
The airport museum was due to open on October 31, the day that Isil miliants brought down a Russian passenger jet as it left Sharm el-Sheikh in the Sinai peninsula, killing all 224 people on board. Britain and Russian have since suspended all flights to the resort.
The disaster dealt a heavy blow to a once-strong Egyptian tourist trade that had already been devastated by the political unrest that followed Egypt’s so-called Arab Spring in 2011.
The number of tourists visiting Egypt has fallen from about 14.7 million in 2010 to around 10 million this year, according to Egyptian tourism ministry figures.
Russia and Britain, two of Egypt’s two main tourist markets, suspended all flights to Sharm el-Sheikh in the wake of the plane crash.
In an interview with The Telegraph on Thursday, Zahi Hawass, a former minister for antiquities and a famed Egyptologist, said he hoped the new airport exhibition would attract much-needed funding to pay for the maintenance of Egypt’s heritage sites.
“The museum will be an opportunity for transit passengers to get an idea about Egypt’s civilisation,” he said. “Egypt’s antiquities are in danger because of a lack of tourism – the maintenance of these sites depends on tourist revenue.”
Cairo airport hosted a similar museum back in 1984, but it was closed a few years later during renovations.
Read the article at www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/12032179/Egypt-to-open-museum-at-Cairo-airport-to-boost-tourism.html
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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