Egypt Museum

for the Third Millennium: There is anew idea to design a new museum spacious enough to accommodate the collections and allow visitors to ’navigate’ along the

many routes potentially offered by a modern

Egypt Museum

The new museum will reflect both the cultural ideals and needs of today’s

society and the archaeology of the new millennium. So it is necessary to

construct an innovative system to facilitate visitors’ navigation around the

museum’s various exhibits so they can discover the spiritual, visual and

historical wealth embodied in the collections.

The treasures' display will effect a harmonious combination between the

container and the collections contained within, and between the visitors’

perception and ’scientific truth’.

The new structure will reflect a new, thematically conceived relationship

between the object and the space surrounding it . The entire

Egyptian Museum in cairo

complex must show the individuality of the collections, which will

reverberate from the inside out The arrangement and presentation of the collection are important to show the museum’s function as a place of cultural

preservation and its social role. Technology and design must highlight both

protection and perception. Exhibits must reflect their original environments by the innovative utilization of a different types of media.

Egyptian Museum in cairo

Site:
Egypt suggests its unique site by the

great pyramid of giza

as a genius site for such cultural /architectural challenge that best reflects the world’s Third Millennium and Egypt’s Seventh Millennium. The land
area of the site is 480000 m2 (117 Feddans, 50 hectares).

The Upper Corridor:

The corridor connects the chambers of the upper floor. These rooms are for Prince Amr Ibrahim and the museum manager, museum keepers’ rooms as well as the
warehouse are under restoration there will be magnificent pieces of Persian,
Iraqi, Tunisian and Moroccan pottery.

The upper floor (Iranian masterpieces) is connected to the ground through inner
stairs. The upper floor is of a rectangular shape through the vacancy in the middle you can see the lobby, and in the two sides of the rectangle there are four doors opened. Two of them on the left side; one for conducting researches
and the other is used for storage. While the right two rooms, one for the director of the museum and the second is that of the prince The walls of this floor is used to put fourteen showcases , the Iranian pieces varied from bowls, jars, square or star tilesandplates. All these ceramics belong to the luster metallic glare of “Sultan Abad’s city” and the decoration consist of plants, animals, and written texts in the Persian language .There is also some furniture
that belongs to the palace; the first is a wooden sofa covered with a special

textiles, the second thing is a box made of inlaid wood. There is also a half circle wooden door, above it one can find an Islamic Gypsum decoration .The door
itself is divided into two parts.

TheLobby

. At the sides of the large wooden museum gate, there are two small rooms; one
to the left used as control room and the other room to the right used as a
bathroom. The lobby is at the museum entrance. A marble fountain is at the center of the lobby, with small geometrical ornaments made of the same marble tiles. The lobby is rectangular and all the galleries’ doors are open on this
lobby and stair for the upper floor .On the museum’s wooden door both sides
there are two small rooms; the left one used as a control room for all the
museum and the electric panel, while the right one used as a water closet.

In the middle of the lobby there is a marble Jet covered with a geometric
formation. The walls are covered with marble till the middle and above it there
is a line of gypsum decorations but the remaining is from a soft gypsum. The
marble is influenced by the Mameluke building style .

The ceiling is covered with a Mamlouke beautiful dome, consist of a square that

has a four colored glass lamps and from the four corners there are yokes to

change the square to circle. In the dome there are sixteen windows of colored

glass, and from the middle of the dome there is a chandelier. There are copper
oil lamps In the lobby’s four corners and above all the doors there are Islamic
decoration, there is a conical stove covered with a Turkish tile with a plant
decoration at the front face of the museum’s door.

The lobby has eight show cases that exhibit Turkish, Iranian and Mameluke
masterpieces. One of these pieces is an Iranian Ewer ends with an animal head
and another Mameluke bowel that has some written texts on it.

There are some modern furniture added to the lobby as a preparation for holding

musical concerts and cultural seminars. They add a wooden stand, microphones, a
piano and a circular wooden table designed on the Islamic style. Gallery of

Egyptian style:

The Egyptian hall located immediately next to the Turkish hall. The floor is

made of marble tiles. The ceiling is ornamented with geometrical shapes composed

of star, plate motifs with geometric shaped plant ornaments assembling the star
plates. Gallery of Egyptian style (Mameluke – Ayyoubide – Ottoman – Omayyade)