It was constructed between 1961 and 1982, just a few meters from where the Khufu ship was found,[1] on the southern side of the Great Pyramid, on the Giza Plateau in Egypt[2] It was equipped with modern techniques and technologies to preserve the solar boat.

The museum was dismantled after the ship was relocated to the Grand Egyptian Museunm in August 2021.

[3][4] When the Egyptian antiquities inspector responsible for the area of Giza, Mohamed Zaky Nour, the civil engineer who was in charge of cleaning up the area of the Pyramids of Giza, Kamal el Malakh, and the supervisor of the cleaning process of the area, Doctor Abdel Men'em Aboubakr were finishing their work at the pyramids, they found what seemed to be a wall made out of limestone.

After much digging, they reached the bottom of the wall and found 42 pieces of rock that were divided into two groups to protect them from damage.

On 26 May 1954, a hole was pierced into the chamber where pieces of a solar barque were buried, and everybody who was there smelled the distinctive scent of cedar wood.