Currently, more than twenty conservators are appointed to work on conservation of the selected artifacts for the GEM. In cooperation with the National Research Institute for Cultural Prosperities, Tokyo, we have been organizing training workshops on conservation by material such as paper and textile. Training Courses in Egypt We […]
Supporting Artifacts Database Development
Launch of the Archeological Database Department (ADD) The number of the artifacts to be transferred to GEM is more than a hundred thousand. The Archeological Unit of the GEM had been working on creating the artifact database for this number in the basement of the Egyptian Museum. They had already […]
JICA to hold workshop on Integrated Pest Management for Egyptian Conservators of Grand Egyptian Museum
May 16, 2010 The Japanese Expert Team dispatched by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to the Project for the Conservation Center in the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM-CC) will organize workshop on Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for four consecutive days on May 16, 2010 through May 19, 2010. The 4-day workshop […]
Checking artifacts selected for GEM begins in the Egyptian Museum in Al-Tahrir
Transportation of the Selected Artifacts Starts
1-5-2010 Mr. Suzuki, an expert in information technology of databases, delivers us reports on workflow progress in Archeological Database Department (ADD). The 27th of January 2010, witnessed the beginning of transportation of selected artifacts from storerooms in different places of Cairo to be displayed in the GEM. The transportation […]
Photographic Documentation Training Course
1-4-2010 The training course of photographic documentation was held from 14th to 31st of March 2010 for conservators of the GEM-CC and Archeological Database Department team, who is working to correct the archeological database. Photography plays an important role in museum activities such as the recording during conservation, preparing descriptions […]
Japan holds a Workshop on Photographic Documentation for Grand Egyptian Museum Conservators
Giza, Egypt – March 14, 2010 Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) holds a Workshop on Photographic Documentation for the conservators of the Grand Egyptian Museum Conservation Center (GEM-CC) from 14th – 25th March. In the two week long workshop, two Japanese experts in conservation and a professional artifact photographer provide […]