On the ground floor, preparation of a special room for the display of the funerary furniture of Queen Hetep-Heres, mother of Khufu, has been under way since the beginning of the year, but its opening has unfortunately been delayed. One of the aims of the reorganisation was to unveil hitherto unexhibited treasures and to this end the museum last summer displayed for the first time a sandstone head of the goddess Mut, a torso of Ramses II, and three busts of Akhenaten. Restoration was also a priority and a major achievement was the reassembling of the statue of Intef, who was head of the army in the 11th Dynasty. The sandstone statue was originally discovered in three pieces, the head, the torso with legs, and the feet. Previously exhibited separately in the Middle Kingdom section of the museum, the parts have now been assembled.
Progress continues into the new year.
The old laboratory of the museum will be transformed into a second mausoleum of mummies to display 16 royal mummies still lying in storage.