Visible storage at Egyptian Museums Case Study: Grand Egyptian Museum

Document Type : Original Article

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Responsible for Old Kingdom Section at Grand Egyptian Museum

Abstract

Visible storage as a model of museum practice started in Canada and then expanded to the rest of the world, according to this idea the public is a real owner of the museum collections and therefore should have the right to have full access to them.
The research contains an introduction that contains an explanation of the idea of the topic and the reasons for choosing, research methodology, and research structure, research survey, analysis results, conclusion and recommendations, pictures showing the ways of storing antiquities inside the Grand Egyptian Museum and the tools used in the storage process and antiquities stores inside the Museum’s Restoration center and models of visible storage in international museums and finally pictures showing the area of antiquities stores in the Museum’s restoration canter after submitting a proposal to implement the idea of visible storage.
The research also reviews storage operation and how to benefit from storage artefacts to researcher and how to make access to stores at Grand Egyptian Museum by physically and online programs.

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