“As a historian, that will give me goosebumps”: Prime Minister Bart De Wever travels to Egypt for the opening of ‘Belgian-made world wonder’

Twenty years of construction. More than 120 million working hours. And a museum that is larger than a city district. On the edge of the desert, with a view of the pyramids of Giza, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) opens this weekend: the largest museum in the world dedicated to one civilization. Egypt’s billion-dollar dream, built by… Belgians. Prime Minister Bart De Wever will be there this weekend. “This should make us so very proud,” he tells HLN.

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