Events Making The Anniversary

• A centennial volume of the Egyptian museum will be published.
• The inauguration of an exclusive exhibition titled "The Hidden Treasures of The Egyptian Museum" which will be displaying a Collection of unique objects, for the first time.
• A twelve minutes long documentary on the museums past 100 years will be produced and screened.
• Some memorabilia items will be available to mark the anniversary.
• The inauguration of an exhibition of photos and historical documents from the Egyptian Muesum..(A set of Egyptian museum's furniture since its establishment, memorabilia coins related to the museum and some of architectural designs and photos of different stages of the museum's design).
• Running of the "Digital Guide" (The Digital Guide a handheld computing device that contains content scanned and created by CULTNAT the Center for the Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage in Egypt and IBM .
  The Digital Guide is an application in English, French, and Arabic that runs on handheld devices and is contained on IBM Microdrives. It provides visitors to the museum with information on objects and Egyptian history. The guide features images, audio narration, multimedia representations, and museum information. Visitors can take the Digital Guide around the museum and request specific information about objects or they can select from one of a variety tours (e.g., the Treasures of King Tutankhamun) to follow. A typical visitor experience with the Digital Guide involves listening to the narrated modules on a headset, viewing images of object details and places on the screen, and interacting with animations that seek to demonstrate concepts not easily grasped in the physical museum. Visitors can dive deeply into the content on a particular object or theme or they can keep a high-level overview of the objects as they move through the galleries).
• Opening the Educational Center within the museum (- Museum school - Child workshop) .
• The inauguration of Animals Mummies Room.

To mark the occasion, a conference will be held on museology in the 21st. century

From December 9-12 , 2002.