The Museum hosts over 100,000 artifacts from ancient Egyptian civilization, including the complete Tutankhamun collection, and many pieces will be on display for the first time.

[12] The building was designed by Heneghan Peng Architects, Buro Happold, Arup and ACE Consulting Engineers (Moharram and Bakhoum).

The front of the museum includes a large plaza filled with date palms and a façade made of translucent alabaster stone.

On 5 January 2002, then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak laid the foundation stone of the Grand Egyptian Museum.

In 2006, the 3,200 years old Statue of Ramesses II was relocated from Ramses Square in Cairo to the Grand Egyptian Museum site, near that Giza Plateau.

[18] On 11 January 2012, a joint venture between Egypt's Orascom Construction (OC) and the Belgian BESIX was awarded the contract for phase three of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), a deal valued at $810 million.

[25][26][27][28][29][30][excessive citations] In August 2020, two colossal statues discovered in the sunken city of Thonis-Heracleion by the IEASM[31] were set up in the entrance hall of the GEM.

[32] The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) began limited public access in February 2023, allowing visitors to explore the main entrance hall and commercial areas.

The artefacts were relocated from storage and museums in Cairo, Luxor, Minya, Sohag, Assiut, Beni Suef, Fayoum, the Delta, and Alexandria.

The official grand opening was expected to take place in late 2024, with the first exhibition intended to showcase 5,000 objects from King Tutankhamun's tomb—relocated from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo—and the reconstructed (August 2021) Khufu ship, a solar barque, which was transferred from the Giza Solar boat museum beside the Great Pyramid.

[42] At present, the golden mask and primary funerary items of King Tutankhamun have yet to be moved to the new museum, and the Khufu solar ship remains inaccessible to the general public, available only through special private tours that can only be arranged in advance.

The first musical concert held in the museum had Egypt’s soprano Fatma Said along with United Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir[43] led by Nader Abbassi on 20th of January 2023,[44] the concert had a number of foreign ambassadors and public figures from Egypt and abroad, and it received a great reaction from the Egyptian audience, specifically for the song "Masr Heya Ommi" that received more than 2 million view on Said's YouTube Channel[45] with audience commenting on the magnificence of Ramses II Statue next to the musical orchestra.