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🗓️ 9 August 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey, how are you doing? |
0:19.0 | Hey, how you doing? Come on in, have a seat. Let's talk. Not great news coming out of Egypt right now. |
0:24.7 | The Grand Egyptian Museum was scheduled to open a couple of weeks ago. I should have mentioned |
0:30.5 | this before. And they have canceled the opening, the grand opening. It's just one episode after another. |
0:39.3 | This has been going on for almost eight years. |
0:42.3 | They'll announce an opening, and then they say, no, we're not going to open it. |
0:48.8 | And from all indications, the museum's ready to open. |
0:53.6 | The interior is ready to go. It's ready to take people. |
0:57.3 | I think there's an administrative problem. I'm not going to get into this, but remember, |
1:03.2 | when you're dealing with a developing country, there's all kinds of snafews and logistical issues |
1:10.0 | that come about. |
1:17.8 | And I thought in the beginning that they were letting Germans or perhaps a French exhibition company run the show. |
1:19.0 | But I think they took it back. |
1:22.2 | And this is the heart of the problem, is that this is a huge museum, 500,000 square feet, five warehouses connected |
1:33.9 | into one, it's a monster, over a million artifacts, statues, carvings, whole sections of temples are in this place. It's now thought to be the |
1:48.3 | largest collection of Egyptian artifacts in the world outpacing the Louvre in Paris, |
1:54.2 | the British Museum in London, even the Met in New York. The Egyptian museum is a monster. And the logistics of dealing with a museum that |
2:07.3 | big are huge. And you have to very, had to have very coordinated staff. And I don't know if the fear of opening has been that they just won't be ready for the people, |
2:21.7 | but they do have another museum. |
2:23.2 | They have a museum in Cairo that is two levels. |
2:27.4 | It's been there since the 50s. |
2:28.7 | So they have an understanding of how to deal with large public groups. |
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