About 100,000 artifacts are planned to be transported to the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM). After these artifacts are conserved at the GEM Conservation Center (GEM-CC), the staff of the GEM-CC will transport them to the GEM for display. In order to ensure that the museum collection is exhibited without making […]
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) provides assistance for not only Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) construction financing, but also for technical assistance to the GEM Conservation Center (GEM-CC). As part of its program to support conservation, JICA provided the training course on Conservation Science during November 4-14, 2012. Previously, the conservators […]
The Grand Egyptian Museum Conservation Center (GEM-CC) Project of JICA conducted a training course on Textile Conservation from 14th to 17th October, 2012 at GEM-CC. The purpose of the training course was the trainees of GEM-CC to obtain necessary knowledge and the conservation techniques for conservation work of the ancient […]
The group of Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCV) working in the varying fields of the specialties in Egypt and the students of Daito Bunka University, who had been in the city of Alexandria located northwest of Cairo to study Arabic, visited the Grand Egyptian Museum Conservation Center (GEM-CC) separately on […]
During the period from the 4th to the 9th of September, the GEM-CC received 3 groups of official visitors from Japan. They were well-received by Dr. El Hussein Bassir, Director General of the GEM and the GEM-CC, Mr. Osama Abo El Kheir, Executive Manager of the GEM-CC and Dr. Hussein […]
During the period from 4th July to 17th July, 2012, Japan International Cooperation Agency ( JICA ) held two training courses, Packing and Transportation in GEM-CC and Handling of Heavy Artifacts, to give participants with skills and knowledge of safe handling of precious collection of Ancient Artifacts. The courses were […]
Japan International Cooperation Agency ( JICA ) conducted a training course on Environmental Science in Museum from 6th June to 13th June, 2012 at the Grand Egyptian Museum-Conservation Center( GEM-CC ). It is necessary to study how fast things in the museum change and what causes these changes, and to […]
Ms. Sugimoto Akiko made a research activity for the improvement of information system at Grand Egyptian Museum Conservation Center (GEM-CC). The research was done at the conservation laboratory and scientific analysis laboratory by interviewing conservators and scientists seeking the possibility to strengthen the information sharing among GEM-CC staff. After the […]
