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The Egyptian Museum officially opened on the 15th of November 1902. The building on Tahrir Square was designed by French architect Marcel Dournon, constructed by the Italian company of Giuseppe Garozzo and Francesco Zaffrani, and completed under German architect Hermann Grabe.
The Egyptian Museum houses over 170,000 items, making it the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world. The museum contains 42 rooms across two main floors.
On the 28th of January 2011, unidentified individuals broke into the Egyptian Museum and stole 54 artifacts. Thieves broke 70 objects, including two sculptures of Tutankhamun. Twenty-five of the stolen items were recovered quickly on the museum grounds, and a recovered group was displayed in September 2013 in an exhibition called "Damaged and Restored."
Auguste Mariette was the first director, serving from 1858 to 1881. Mariette founded the new Antiquities Department and established the museum at Boulaq in a former warehouse on the Nile riverbank. His tomb was later moved to the museum's garden in accordance with his wish to be buried among the artifacts he collected.
Wafaa El Saddik was appointed in 2004 as the first female director general of the Egyptian Museum. Her appointment marked a notable shift in an institution led almost exclusively by European scholars throughout its first century of operation.
The Department of Antiquities operated a sale room in room 56 on the ground floor from 1902, where original ancient Egyptian artifacts were sold. Until the 1970s, dealers could also bring antiquities for inspection and export clearance on Thursdays. The sale room closed in November 1979 after years of debate about the practice.