Your first encounter is with Ramesses II, standing in a hall spacious enough to reveal his scale before his carved details. Officially inaugurated in November 2025 near the Giza pyramids, the Grand Egyptian Museum brings ancient objects into a contemporary building connected to the landscape around them.
The Grand Staircase leads past royal figures and architectural fragments towards galleries exploring power, society and belief. In the Tutankhamun galleries, everyday possessions sit alongside funerary equipment, allowing the contents of one tomb to emerge as a connected world rather than a succession of golden treasures.
