Arturo Avello visits restoration lab in Grand Egyptian Museum

CAIRO – 4 May 2018: Ambassador of Spain in Egypt, Arturo Avello, visited the restoration labs in the Grand Egyptian Museum, GEM, with his delegation. General supervisor of the labs in GEM, Tarek Tawfik, welcomed the ambassador and his delegation when they arrived at the museum.

Avello and his group inspected the restoration works on the organic antiques laboratory, the wood factory, and the heavy antiques laboratory. Then they headed to the construction site of the Grand Egyptian Museum and expressed their admiration of the Egyptian Civilization and Egypt’s role in preserving it.

The Grand Egyptian Museum is located between modern Cairo and the Giza Pyramids. It contains more than 100,000 artifacts, covering almost 3,000 years of Egyptian history.


The Grand Egyptian Museum is considered to be the largest archaeological museum in the world, it covers over 491,000 square meters, and is situated two kilometers away from the Giza Pyramids.