In October 2017 students from third to sixth grade of the Japanese school in Cairo visited the Grand Egyptian Museum Conservation Center (GEM-CC). We wanted them to experience the conservation process up close, so we put up a visit schedule to visit the laboratories and then try to be a […]
The Textile team has started discussing the specification of the mount. Mount is a essential factor in terms of both exhibition and preventive conservation. Textile team, informed with final display design, started discussion on mounting methods with many stakeholders including display planners, curators, and conservators. In the meetings, 4 different […]
Staying for two weeks, Mr. Ogasawara and Mr. Watanabe, two highly professional photographers, came from Japan equipped with a high resolution camera that can capture up to 80 mega pixels quality photos, with which they carried out the high resolution photographing of the lead artifacts. Such a high-end camera and […]
As the artifacts arrive to GEM-CC and get unpacked, the fumigation team always makes necessary visual inspection and decides the procedures for following fumigation. After visual inspection by the fumigation team, if fumigation deemed necessary, it will go on to the next process. In the case of our Follow Artifacts, […]
Documentation and condition check at the Luxor museum Accompanied by Dr. Osama Abo El Khair and Dr. Hussein Kamal, Mr.Eissa Zidan the head of the transportation team started the preparation for the transportation of Tutankhamun’s chariot exhibited at the Luxor Museum. As the Luxor Museum curators opened the showcase, both […]
Another bed and chariot were successfully transported from the EM to the GEM-CC on the 5th and 9th of October. Although the 5th was a make-up holiday for the national holiday of the “Armed Forces Day” in Egypt, the transportation team members gathered in red project t-shirts uniform and worked […]
