With the aim of promoting cultural tourism and attracting tourists as soon as they arrive at the airport and giving him an opportunity to see a model of the Pharaonic, Islamic and Coptic antiquities, Cairo International Airport has received a number of artifacts to be placed inside the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Terminal 3.
Major General Ahmed Genena, the board chairman of the Cairo International Airport, said the airport has received 10 pieces of antiquities and cupboards of mummies, in cooperation with the Ministry of Antiquities to be place inside the special museum at the terminal so that transit passengers and tourists can see some of the original artifacts that embody the ancient Egyptian civilization.
Genena added that a committee from the Ministry of Antiquities is expected to be at the museum to follow up the visitors and secure it along with the guards outside as part of securing the airport’s terminals by the policemen. A small fee between 3 and 5 dollars or EGP 25 per person will be paid to visit the museum. An area between Terminal 2 and 3 will be allocated to the museum which will be opened very soon, he said, adding that if the turnout increased it will be expanded to accommodate a larger number of artifacts from different eras.
Dr. Mamdouh el Damati, the Minister of Antiquities, paid an inspection visit to the museum at Cairo International Airport before leaving for abroad. He stressed during his visit that the museum will be provided with additional windows to showcase a number of rich pieces that belong to the Islamic era.
