{"id":318225,"date":"2010-02-14T05:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T10:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-7564164313889189839"},"modified":"2010-02-14T05:55:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T10:55:55","slug":"remaking-egypts-shelves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/318225","title":{"rendered":"Remaking Egypt’s shelves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Egypt Today<\/a> (Michael Kaput)<\/p>\n

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With grand plans for a museum in every governorate, the SCA is looking to spring history from its tourist trap.<\/p>\n

The building that houses the office in charge of the nation\u2019s museums at the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) downtown is grand but half-finished. With some work, it could be truly magnificent. Whether that work gets done anytime soon is anyone\u2019s guess. The same could be said about the SCA\u2019s colossal undertaking to give the country\u2019s staggering collection of artifacts a new showcase.<\/p>\n

Flush with ticket revenue from international exhibitions and local tourist sites, the SCA is in the midst of a project that will see 20 new museums covering every governorate, and long-closed favorites re-opening to the public over the next five years. More than just cash cows feeding on tourist dollars, however, the new museums are also hope to reconnect Egyptians with their own heritage, in their own neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

\u201cTen years ago, we didn\u2019t have any [major] museum, only the Egyptian Museum,\u201d says Mohamed Abdel Fattah, head of the SCA\u2019s Museum Sector.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the nation\u2019s most famous museum is also its most infamous, with many visitors complaining about poor lighting and labels, crowded displays and no air conditioning. Renovation projects have added new display spaces for the royal mummies, temporary exhibitions and a revamped outdoor museum in the back garden. In January, a permanent children\u2019s museum opened on the premises. The fact remains, however, that the nation\u2019s collection of Pharaonic artifacts alone had outgrown the Egyptian Museum almost as soon as it opened in Tahrir Square in 1902.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Egypt Today (Michael Kaput) With grand plans for a museum in every governorate, the SCA is looking to spring history from its tourist trap. The building that houses the office in charge of the nation\u2019s museums at the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) downtown is grand but half-finished. With some work, it could be truly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}