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Antiquities Min. to Establish Museum in NAC


Wed 28 Aug 2019 | 08:53 AM
Ali Abu Dashish

President Abdel Fatah Al Sisi has issued a presidential decree to establish a City of Arts and Culture (CAC) in the New Administrative Capital (NAC).

The planned city in NAC will be among the largest ones of that kind in the whole world.

Khalid El Enani, Minister of Antiquities and Maj. Gen. Mohamed Amin Nasr, Adviser of President of the Republic for Financial Affairs, have just attended inking of a protocol of cooperation between the Higher Council for Antiquities and Al Massa Group to establish a new museum at CAC in NAC.

Dr Mustafa Waziry, General- Secretary of the Higher Council for Antiquities (HCA) and Walid Samy, General Manager of La Massa Group signed the protocol.

The attendees watched a show of the environed city, its museum and scenario of the internal departments of it.

Dr Waziry said that the protocol is one of cooperation facets between the HCA and the government to upgrade and run services in museums and archeological sites across the country.

He added the Ministry of Antiquities has inked a number of protocols with the Ministry of Housing and New Urban Communities to develop the Antiquities area at Sakkara.

It has also signed other protocols with Governorates of Marsa Matrouh and Kafr El Sheikh to develop and open two museums in each one of them to activate tourism there.

He added that signing of this protocol came after approving of Board of Directors of HCA

Museum of antiquities in the New Administrative Capital will house miscellaneous collection of artifacts that mirrors richness of Egypt’s cultural histiory.

Dr Waziry affirmed that the HCA will run, supervise and the artifacts to the new museums.

It will supply security personnel and insuring all pieces.

Management of city of arts and culture will construct the museum and supplying all services such as new methods of lighting and insuring against fire, theft along with cleaning.

On his party, Dr Mahmud Mabrouk, adviser of screening in the Ministry of Antiquities, said that the new museum documentizes for the first time history of capitals of Egypt throughout all eras of history, such as Memphis, Thebes, Alexandria in the Ptolemaic and Roman epochs, Fustat in the early Islamic era and Cairo.

A show window will be allotted to every capital of Egypt to shed light on administrative aspects which include seals, correspondence, trade exchange, coins and periods of the each dynasties.

Contributed by Ahmed Moamar