They’ve got some real Old Kingdom 4th dynasty masterpieces (Zahi Hawass has never to my knowledge made any demands, but it’s clear that he wants those returned to Egypt. And people given hot sauce enemas want some aloe.); the first, uh, couple of times I went, everything was out in the open. The next time, everything, literally, everything in that main hall was roped off because of the wild jackals which pass for third world children, visiting the museum because their parents know it’s cheap to get in and might help their moronic larvae in their education.
Indeed...it’s smack in the middle of a “rough neighborhood”.