Dr. Mustafa Waziri, general secretary of the Supreme Council of Antiques, announced that visitors can now stay up to 6 pm at Baron Empain Palace, Cairo, instead of 4 pm.
Waziri explained that the latest decision was made as high turnout of visitors was recorded by the palace authorities.
The opening hours were extended and approved by the Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Dr. Khaled Al-Anani, to be 9 am - 6 pm, until further notice.
It is worth noting that the extension of opening hours was made immediately after the inauguration of the palace before visitors in June, where it was initially decided to return back to the 9am-4pm schedule last Wednesday, but now the extension of hours was made.
Dr. Waziri noted that health and protective precautions are still going on, to ensure safe tours inside the palace, adding that only 900 entering tickets are sold daily, 100 of them per hour, and only 10 people are allowed to gather in the same room inside the palace, and the maximum number of visitors in the panorama area (the roof of the palace) is 15. The palace tour takes a maximum of 45 minutes.
Baron Empain Palace was opened at the end of last June after the completion of the first integrated project to restore, renovate and develop it into an exhibition that tells the history of the Heliopolis neighborhood.
It was built by Belgian millionaire Baron Edward Empain in the style of Indian architecture
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