The ancient Egyptian tomb paintings of Nebamum will be on display for the first time in 10 years at the British Museum in London, UK when a new £2m gallery opens on 21 January.

The permanent gallery space, design by the museum's in-house team, will display the collection of eleven large fragments, each painted with some of the most iconic Egyptian art images. The collection, originally from the tomb-chapel of Nebamum within the Temple of Amun at Karnak, has not been displayed for over 10 years thanks to an extensive conservation project, one of the largest in the museum's history, which has secured the paintings for the next fifty years.

The gallery, which is designed to recreate the small chapel, will also include other fragments from the chapel, on loan from the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. There will also be a computer 'walk-through' of the reconstructed tomb-chapel and an interactive version on the web. Over 150 artefacts showing how the ancient chapel was built, how it remained open for visitors as well as documentation of Egyptian society will be on show.

The upper-floor gallery is situated next to the popular 'mummy room', Ancient Egyptian funerary archaelogy, and the museum hopes the new gallery will get just as much interest.