The Cairo Museum was not built intelligently or well and was falling apart even a century ago. Much priceless material culture was destroyed in basement flooding in the years before the Nile was dammed. John D. Rockefeller Jr. even offered to replace it in the 1920s, redirecting his funds to Jerusalem after politics and the control he demanded torpedoed the project. The mummies should have been moved to a more appropriate location long ago. I don't begrudge the Egyptian state a little bit of pomp and glitter as they do what they should have done long ago.