The long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum by Dublin studio Heneghan Peng Architects has been captured ahead of its scheduled opening in Giza, Egypt, later this year.
In the photos shared by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the colossal building, also known as the Giza Museum, is framed against the Pyramids of Giza.
The world's largest museum has been captured ahead of opening in Egypt
Heneghan Peng Architects' design for the museum encompasses 90,000 square metres of a 50-hectare site, making it the world's biggest museum.
It is being built for the Egyptian Ministry of Culture to house more than 100,000 pharaonic artefacts from Ancient Egypt and, alongside exhibition space, there will be a children's museum, conference centre, auditorium, conservation spaces and gardens. Plans for long-awaited museum began in 1992
Plans for the Grand Egyptian Museum were first revealed in 1992 when former president Hosni Mubarak set aside a site approximately two kilometres from the three Giza pyramids for the project.
It wasn't until 2012 that construction began, nine years after Dublin studio Heneghan Peng Architects won an international competition to design the building with engineering by UK firms Arup and Buro Happold.
The studio completed the concrete shell of the Grand Egyptian Museum in 2015 and, at the time, opening was projected for 2018. However, a number of political and economic setbacks mean the museum remains unopen.
The current estimated opening is late spring 202...