The national project of founding the Luxor Heritage Center was part of the protocol signed by MCIT, represented by CULTNAT and the Supreme Council of Luxor. According to a comprehensive development plan the project aims at upgrading the technical infrastructure of Luxor Supreme Council. The state of the art center was inaugurated by President Mubarak in January 2007 and contains a Panorama of Culture, Star Riders Exhibition Hall, 3-D Show Hall and Mubarak Public Library.
Mubarak Center for Egyptian Cultural Heritage is established with the aim of orienting Luxor’s tourists with Egypt’s cultural heritage.
The center has been founded as part of the cooperation protocol signed between the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), represented in Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CULTNAT), and the Supreme Council of Luxor in February 2005.
According to a comprehensive developmental plan, the protocol aims at upgrading the technological infrastructure of Luxor’s Supreme Council. This plan has currently entered into force.
The center is operated by state-of-the-art ICT tools to delineate the Egyptian civilization throughout ages.
CULTNAT is affiliated to Bibliotheca Alexandrina and supported by MCIT. It contributes by different projects through which the Egyptian heritage is represented by state-of-the-art applications and technologies.
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These projects are:
• Panorama of Culture (CULTRAMA): An interactive showcase of the documentation of Pharonic, Coptic, Islamic, natural and modern Egyptian heritage. This panorama is the first of its kind in the world.
• Forsan al-Sama’a Hall: A hall where astrological equipments are displayed to demonstrate the contributions of the Islamic culture and the Arab leadership in astrology.
• 3D Show Hall: The hall comprises three rooms for 3D showcase of selected Pharonic, Coptic and Islamic archeological pieces. Visitors can view these pieces as they are showcased in Egyptian museums by using special eye-glasses.
• Eternal Egypt website: www.eternalegypt.org is a unique interactive website that showcases selected treasures of the Egyptian cultural heritage covering all Pharonic, Greek, Roman, Coptic and Islamic ages.
CULTNAT has participated in designing these halls so that they can occupy the largest number of tourists daily. Regular shows will be presented in Arabic and English languages in the first phase and other languages will be added in the future