It's the right thing to do, so well done by the Met. Modernizing the facilities and security at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo would be a good idea as well rather than moving everything out to a new building at Giza would also be the right thing to do.
Zahi Hawass, the secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt, was scheduled to announce the transfer in Cairo on Wednesday. The 19 objects are small in scale. Among the more significant are a tiny bronze dog, less than three-quarters of an inch tall, and a small sphinx from a bracelet. The objects will be on display until January as part of the Tutankhamen exhibition in Times Square, which was organized by a company working with the Egyptian government. After that, they are to be exhibited at the Met for six months and then sent to Egypt to be shown at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and the Grand Egyptian Museum at Giza when it opens in 2012.
