The museum opened to the public on Tuesday (4 November) after three days of VIP visits from 39 world leaders, 10 prime ministers and 16 delegations, which began on Saturday (1 November).
GEM is packed with 100,000 artefacts covering some seven millennia of the country's history from pre-dynastic times to the Greek and Roman eras. Egypt hopes GEM will attract upwards of eight million visitors each year.
Highlights include the entire contents of the intact tomb of the boy king Tutankhamun, which is going on display for the first time since it was found by British Egyptologist Howard Carter in 1922.
