33 h. ago Pressure intensifies on Britain to return the Rosetta Stone after new museum opens in Egypt

The opening of the £910 million Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo has reignited a campaign for Britain to return the Rosetta stone, one of ancient history's most important artefacts.

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63 h. ago The Grand Egyptian Museum finally opens – what took so long?

The Man Who Pays His Way: The builders have reached the finish line for Cairo’s Grand Egyptian Museum, and now the race to the past begins

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3 d. ago Inside the $1bn Grand Egyptian Museum as 50,000 artifacts go on display from Tutankhamun to Khufu’s solar boat

The building, the size of Vatican city with a collection larger than the Louvre, has been in the making for over 30 years and is finally set to formally open in November, Maira Butt writes

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3 d. ago The Grand Egyptian Museum is finally opening with exhibits catered to Gen Z and a collection rivaling the Louvre

A King Tut collection will be displayed in its entirety for the first time at the new museum

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4 d. ago The Grand Egyptian Museum showcasing 50,000 artifacts is finally opening

The Grand Egyptian Museum is finally nearing its grand opening after two decades of anticipation

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3 w. ago Get Cartier! How Jean Novel turned an old Paris department store into a museum to rival the Louvre

The exterior may be a bit Apple shop. But inside – upending the very notion of galleries – the new Fondation Cartier can reconfigure its spaces with thrillingly movable platforms. And as for the lecture theatre, it’s blood redCome what may, Jean Nouvel will always have Paris. The City of Lights has been the stage and stomping ground of French architecture’s vieux terrible since the early 1980s. Yet the building that first made his name – the Institut du Monde Arabe, a glittering, delicate, metallic creation inset with mechanical lenses to regulate light – is a lifetime away from the bemusement that met his last Parisian project, completed a decade ago.That was the ill-starred Philharmonie, a gargantuan trophy concert hall, described in the Guardian as resembling “a pile of broken paving stones” and “a greatest hits mashup of dictators’ icons”. Nouvel may well concur, since he boycotted the building’s inauguration, dismayed by budget cuts and design tweaks (“value engineering” as it ...

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