Nello stesso Museo, ieri è stata aperta una mostra sulla storia del Museo del Cairo dalla sua apertura nel 1902 ad oggi. Questo l'articolo dell'Egyptian Gazette:

An exhibition about the history of the Egyptian Museum since its opening in 1902 is currently being held on the museum premises in Tahrir Square in central Cairo.

The exhibition, opened earlier this week by Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Zahi Hawass, features information and photographs about the construction of the museum in 1902. In the garden of the Egyptian Museum there is a statue of French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, who established the Museum and carried out many of the early excavations in Egypt. The museum contains 107 halls. On the ground floor there are the huge statues, while the upper floor houses smaller statues, jewels, Tutankhamun's treasures and the mummies. The museum also comprises a photography section and a large library with many sections arranged in chronological order. A few years ago, a hall for the royal mummies was opened at the museum, housing eleven kings and queens. More than 1.5 million tourists visit the museum annually, in addition to 500,000 Egyptians. In 1835, the Egyptian Government established the ëService des Antiques de l?Egypte?, mainly to halt the plunderingof archaeological sites and to arrange the exhibition of the artifacts owned by the Government. To start with, the artifacts were stored in the Ezbekiya Gardens in downtown Cairo, before being transferred to a building in the Citadel of Saladin. In 1858, a museum was opened in Boulaq Abul Ella, whose contents had been collected Mariette. In 1880, the contents of the Boulaq Museum were transferred to an annex of the Giza palace of Ismail Pasha, the ruler of Egypt. The present museum in Tahrir Square was built in the neoclassical style by the French architect Marcel Dourgnon.