The world’s largest archaeological museum has officially opened in Giza, marking a new era for cultural preservation and global tourism. The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), a $1B national mega-project more than two decades in the making, brings 7,000 years of Egyptian civilization into a world-class cultural destination.
Alongside its architectural and cultural achievements, GEM represents a modern success story in digital project delivery. Throughout design and construction, the Ministry of Antiquities and Hill International standardized the project’s controls on PMWEB, enabling full visibility, governance, and collaboration across one of the most complex cultural programs ever executed.
Located beside the Great Pyramids, the Grand Egyptian Museum spans nearly 500,000 m² and houses more than 100,000 artifacts across twelve grand galleries, conservation labs, education facilities, and public spaces. Highlights include:
This moment marks a monumental investment in heritage, tourism, and national identity, positioning Egypt as a global cultural hub for generations to come.
GEM’s scale demanded a unified approach to project information, from cost and schedule control to document workflows, risk capture, and executive insight. The digital backbone for this effort: PMWEB.
Key capabilities used:
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Hill International, the project management consultant for GEM and a long-standing PMWEB client, led program governance and digital controls strategy for the project.
Hill selected PMWEB as the program’s central system to ensure discipline, transparency, and real-time accountability across the delivery lifecycle. With PMWEB, Hill International and GEM migrated legacy data, and configured workflows and dashboards to coordinate global stakeholders.
“The Grand Egyptian Museum is an iconic project and the most significant cultural undertaking of our time,” says Waleed Abdel-Fattah, Hill International President. “Thank you to everyone who participated in this project, and we invite the whole world to come and visit the museum, showing the new face of Egyptian artifacts to the whole world.”
The Grand Egyptian Museum set a new standard for heritage development, blending traditional craftsmanship with advanced program controls. With PMWEB as its integrated digital command center, the project team achieved:
This approach established a blueprint for the future of cultural capital projects, where transparency and governance are as foundational as bricks and mortar.
The Grand Egyptian Museum is now open to the world, honoring Egypt’s past while embracing modern innovation in project delivery. PMWEB is proud to have played a role in supporting the systems, teams, and global collaboration behind this extraordinary achievement.
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