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In 1965, Egypt presented the temple to the United States in recognition of the United States' contribution of $16 million toward saving various other monuments threatened by the dam's construction.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /> [[Jacqueline Kennedy]] accepted the gift on behalf of the United States. In 1967, the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities appointed a commission to consider applications from institutions interested in exhibiting the temple.<ref name=":4" />
The press nicknamed the competition for the temple the "Dendur Derby".<ref name=":3" /> Museums in [[Cairo, Illinois]] and [[Memphis, Tennessee]] thought they were the ideal choice because their cities' namesakes were in Egypt.<ref name=":3" /> The commission did not agree.<ref name=":3" /> In 1966, President Johnson received hundreds of letters from schoolchildren asking for the temple to be relocated to Phoenix, Arizona.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=March 1966 |title=Children Ask the President for Temple |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112108168821&seq=221 |journal=State Department Newsletter |pages=53 |via=Hathitrust}}</ref> The [[Smithsonian Institution]] proposed erecting the temple on the banks of the [[Potomac River]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], while the [[Boston Museum of Fine Arts]] preferred the banks of the [[Charles River]] in [[Boston]].<ref name=":3" /> However, the commission rejected these suggestions because the temple's sandstone would suffer from an outdoor environment.<ref name=":3" />
On April 20, 1967, President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] awarded the temple to [[The Metropolitan Museum of Art]] (the Met).<ref name=":4" /> The commission selected the Met because it had a clear plan to locate and protect the building from the weather, pollutants, and the different environment in the United States.<ref name=":3" /> The Met planned to display the temple inside a building where they could replicate Egypt's high temperatures and dry climate that preserved the structure for centuries.<ref name=":52">{{Cite journal |last=Gissen |first=David |date=2009 |title=The Architectural Production of Nature, Dendur/New York |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20627756 |journal=Bibliography |volume=34 |issue=34 |pages=58–79 |jstor=20627756 |via=JSTOR}}</ref><ref name=":3" />
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