Hours before its official opening, Sherif Fathy, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, inspected the final touches in preparation for the official opening of the "Ramses and the Gold of the Pharaohs" exhibition at Battersea Power Station in the British capital London, which opens to the public from 28 February and runs until 30 August 2026.
He also inspected the Egyptian Tourism Promotion Authority's stand inside the exhibition and its promotional material and photos of the Egyptian tourist destination, along with a screen showing promotional films about Egypt throughout the exhibition.
The exhibition features 180 artifacts, most notably the coffin of King Ramses II from the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, a number of artifacts from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir from the reign of King Ramses II, and pieces from the Egyptian mission's discoveries in the Bubasteion area at Saqqara, as well as holdings from a number of Egyptian museums, highlighting the distinctive features of ancient Egyptian civilization from the Middle Kingdom to the Late Period through a varied collection of statues, jewelry, cosmetic tools, stelae and stone blocks decorated with inscriptions, as well as a number of colored wooden coffins.
The exhibition has been a great success during its overseas tour, which began in November 2021 in Houston, USA, then moved to San Francisco in August 2022, to the French capital Paris in April 2023, then to Sydney, Australia, in November 2023, Cologne, Germany, in July 2024, and Tokyo, Japan, in 2025, before beginning its new stop in London.
The minister was accompanied on his tour by Dr. Ahmed Youssef, head of the Tourism Promotion Authority; Dr. Hisham El-Leithy, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities; Rana Gohar, the Minister's Advisor for Communication and External Relations and General Supervisor of the General Department of International Relations and Agreements; Dr. Gamal Mostafa, Advisor to the Secretary-General for Islamic and Coptic Antiquities; Saeed Shebl, Head of the Central Department of Museum Storehouses; Mohamed Mohsen, Director of the Americas and Iberian Peninsula Unit at the Authority; and Yasmine Samy, First Secretary at the Egyptian Embassy in London, as well as the organizing company's team.
