Italy is currently working on a study to upgrade the display system at the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo, according to a top archaeology official, reports Mohamed Ismail.“Some artefacts will remain in the museum after the transfer of collections of antiquities to the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza,” said Zahi Hawass, the Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities.

Hawass (pictured left) told a ceremony this week in Cairo, starting an Italian programme to train museum curators, that the National Museum would continue to showcase unique artefacts.The training programme, running until next February, is the first step in an ambitious project between Egypt and Italy to develop the National Museum, the Italian Ambassador in Cairo Claudio Pacifico (seen in the centre) told the same event. The project costs 1.3 million euros.