Tourist Egypt - Museums

The most representative Egyptian Museums

Egypt's National Museum

Tourist Egypt recommends you a wonderful place to visit: the Egyptian National Museum in Cairo.


Mohamed Ali decreed in 1834 an administration for the antiquities. He also ordered constituting the first museum in Al-Azbaquia. In 1858, August Mariette was in charge of the Egyptian Antiquities Institution and he built a museum in Bulaq, which opened in1863.
In 1891, the antiquities were transferred from Bulaq to the Palace of Giza . In 1902 the present museum was built. It has about 120,000 objects on display, and also several hundred thousand in the vaults.





Also available are the Coptic Museum, the Islamic Museum and the Greco-Roman Museum.

The Cairo National Museumand it's hidden treasures.



The Luxor Museum


It has some of the best displays of antiquities in Egypt. Opened in 1975 and housed within a modern building, it has a limited in number, but beautiful display of items. The museum prides itself on the quality of the pieces, the way in which they are displayed, and the clear multilingual labeling used.
Some of the most striking items on show are grave goods from the tomb of Tutankhamun including a cow-goddess head from his tomb on the first floor and his funerary boats on the second floor and a collection of 26 exceptionally well preserved New Kingdom statues that were found buried in a cache in nearby Luxor Temple in 1989. It also has displayed the royal mummies of two pharaohs - Ahmose I and Ramesses I.


Quest for the Lost TombsSecrets of the Pharaohs.


Coming soon : The Mummification Museum of Luxor


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