Dublin studio Heneghan Peng Architects has reached completion on the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, more than three decades after plans for the project were announced.
Sprawled across a 50,000-square-metre site close to the Pyramids of Giza, the colossal museum houses more than 100,000 pharaonic antiquities – many that have never been made public before.
It has a total floor area of 81,000 square meters and, according to Heneghan Peng Architects, is the “largest museum in the world dedicated to a single civilisation”.
“Designing a museum of this calibre, in such close proximity to a landmark as monumental and symbolic as the pyramids, is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” said Heneghan Peng Architects’s co-founder Róisín Heneghan.
“Our design works to strengthen that connection to history and place, providing a home for some never-before-seen artifacts that rests upon the very land from which they were created,” she continued.
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