The museum is built on an area of 500,000 square metres, where imagination, thought and creativity were combined to create a unique and distinctive architectural design for this great cultural edifice.

The visitor's path to the Grand Egyptian Museum begins by entering from the Cairo-Alexandria Desert Road to the main entrance square, the Egyptian Obelisk Square with an area of 27,000 square metres, 000 square metres where he sees in front of him the majestic facade of the museum ‘Pyramids Wall’ with a width of 600 metres and a height of 45 metres, from which the visitor enters the building, which consists of two main blocks: the museum building to his left (south side) with a total area of 92,623 square metres and the conference building to his right (north side) with a total area of 40,609 square metres connecting them to the entrance lobby where the statue of King Ramses the Great lies.

Components of the building:

The main entrance with an area of 7,000 square metres with a statue of King Ramses and 5 huge artefacts.

The Great Staircase with an area of 6,000 square metres with a height equivalent to 6 floors and contains 87 huge artefacts.

The King Tutankhamun Hall with an area of 7.5 thousand square metres and includes 5 thousand pieces of the king's treasures combined for the first time.

Permanent exhibition halls with an area of 18,000 square metres containing archaeological objects related to the ancient Egyptian civilisation.

Temporary exhibition halls with an area of 5,000 square metres and contains 4 halls for changing exhibitions.

The Children's Museum with an area of 5,000 square metres and contains multimedia and models to explain the archaeological content.

Crafts and arts classrooms with an area of 880 square metres and contains 5 handicrafts classrooms.

Exhibition halls for people with special abilities with an area of 650 square metres.

Archaeological warehouses with an area of 4 thousand square metres containing about 50 thousand archaeological objects equipped for study and scientific research.

The main library with an area of 1.1 thousand square metres.

Rare books library with an area of 250 square metres.

Visual library with an area of 325 square metres.