The Cabinet's Media Center highlighted a report published by Forbes magazine in June 2026, titled "The New Grand Egyptian Museum: Egypt's Newest Tourism Jewel". The museum has become one of the world's leading tourist and cultural destinations, having welcomed around 7 million visitors since opening in November 2025, more than 45% of them international tourists, making it the third most visited museum in the world.
The Media Center noted that the report praised the museum as the largest archaeological museum in the world dedicated to a single civilization, housing more than 100,000 artifacts covering around five thousand years of Egyptian history, and displaying for the first time the complete collection of King Tutankhamun's treasures, comprising more than 5,000 artifacts in galleries spanning 7,500 square meters.
It added that the report highlighted how the museum welcomes its visitors with the statue of King Ramses II, dating back around 3,200 years, along with exhibits spanning from the pre-dynastic era to the Greco-Roman period, in an experience that combines digital and traditional display methods.
The Media Center stressed, according to the report, that Egypt offers its visitors diverse tourism experiences, including the pyramids, the Grand Egyptian Museum, Cairo, beach tourism, eco-tourism and adventure tourism, as well as the Holy Family route and the Religions Complex, in addition to New Alamein City, which has more than 15,000 hotel rooms, shops, a university and an international airport, as part of the expansion of Egypt's tourism assets.
The report noted that the Egyptian government aims to welcome 30 million tourists by 2030, explaining that Egypt welcomed 15.7 million tourists in 2024 before the number rose to 19 million in 2025, an increase of 21%, exceeding the global average growth of 5%, driven by a 32% rise in charter flights to Egyptian tourist destinations, according to the official Facebook page of Egypt's Cabinet.
