UNESCO Picks Egyptian Museum as Most Influential African Museum

The Twitter account of the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square came in the second rank as the most influential official page for an African museum.

In statements on Friday, Director of the museum Sabah Abdel Razeq said this came according to an annual initiative of the Museum Week under the auspices of UNESCO.

The initiative’s official page congratulated the Egyptian Museum over such performance.

https://twitter.com/MuseumWeek/status/1263474910011297805

Museum Week is a worldwide festival celebrated by cultural institutions on social media.

In 2015, the UNESCO General Conference adopted the recommendation concerning the protection and promotion of museums and collections, their persity and their role in society. UNESCO has long recognized that museums are key players in promoting the values of heritage, persity, and intercultural dialogue.

Held from April 23 to 29, the theme of this fifth edition of #MuseumWeek is "life in society", focusing on the values of tolerance and citizenship.

https://twitter.com/EgyptianMuseumC/status/1263823608771743751

The event aims to infuse the digital environment, which is often dominated by intolerance, with the cultural, artistic, technical, and scientific content promoted by museums.

The principle of the event is simple: around the formula "7 days, 7 themes, 7 hashtags", museums, galleries, archive centers, libraries and other cultural institutions around the world, celebrate Culture, art, and science with their public on social networks. (MENA)