The Grand Egyptian Museum was not merely an archaeological project; as President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi described it, it is Egypt's gift to the world, which qualified it to win international awards and certificates. It also holds the unique title of the first eco-friendly green museum in Egypt.
The Grand Egyptian Museum won the award for the best project in the world for 2024 from the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC), being honored as one of the most prominent global architectural projects combining innovation and advanced engineering, during the sixth annual FIDIC Contract Users' Awards ceremony held in the British capital, London. This award is the first of its kind for an Egyptian project, enhancing the museum's status as an architectural masterpiece and a leading cultural institution.
The museum also obtained official accreditation for a comprehensive report on greenhouse gases, including the measurement of carbon emissions resulting from the museum's activities, after it was certified by the General Organization for Export and Import Control, in cooperation with the Egyptian Accreditation Council (EGAC).
In a related context, a cooperation protocol was signed between the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency and the Grand Egyptian Museum Authority on protecting, preserving and caring for the environment to support environmental policies and apply environmental standards and practices inside the museum, paving the way for declaring it an "eco-friendly green museum".
On the other hand, the Grand Egyptian Museum won the Prix Versailles as one of the 7 most beautiful museums in the world for 2024, at a ceremony held at the headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in the French capital, Paris.
The British newspaper The Telegraph also selected the Grand Egyptian Museum among the best tourist places in the world in 2024.
Meanwhile, in December 2019, the Grand Egyptian Museum hosted an event setting a new Guinness World Record for creating a painting of King Tutankhamun's mask using 7,260 coffee cups made into a mosaic as a symbol of love and welcome, over an area of 60 square meters in the plaza leading to the museum's open-air restaurant area, as an artwork made with the largest number of coffee cups.
