Grand Egyptian Museum tickets go up on 1 November: EGP 220 for Egyptians
From Sunday 1 November an adult Egyptian ticket rises from EGP 200 to 220, and a foreign visitor's from EGP 1,570 to 1,830. Students, children and residents pay more too.
Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza
Tickets for the Grand Egyptian Museum go up on Sunday 1 November, Egypt Independent and CairoScene reported. The rise applies to every category.
Egyptian adults will pay EGP 220 instead of 200, and Egyptian students, children and seniors EGP 110 instead of 100. Arab and foreign visitors will pay EGP 1,830 instead of 1,570, and their students and children EGP 920 instead of 790. Foreigners living in Egypt go from EGP 790 to 920, and their students and children from EGP 400 to 460.
Tickets are sold online only, through the museum's official website, where you pick a date and time, then the ticket type and nationality. Booking before 1 November means paying the current price. The complex opens from 8:30am to 7pm (halls 9am to 6pm, last tickets 5pm), and until 10pm on Wednesdays and Saturdays (halls until 9pm, last tickets 8pm).