Egypt museums hope grassroots fundraising will prove fertile | The Art Newspaper

Construction has begun on the main hall of the Grand Egyptian Museum at Giza, though funding remains a problem for the long-running project. Despite around $300m in soft loans from the Japanese International Cooperation Agency, a fall in tourist revenue since the January 2011 revolution has left Egyptian authorities struggling to raise the $800m total needed to complete the museum complex in time for its planned opening in 2015.

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