Egyptian Museum travel guide

• Coptic Museum,
• Islamic Ceramic Museum,
• Gezira Art Center

• Pyramids of Giza,
• Historic Cairo,
• Cairo

Egyptian Museum

The Egyptian Museum is housed in a beautiful historic building at the north end of Midan Tahrir

With its finds of Egyptian and Graeco-Roman objects from the Nile valley, it is the largest and most significant collection of this type anywhere and one of the most interesting sights in Cairo. The museum was founded in 1857 by the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette (1821–1881). There is agreement that the museum building, which was opened in 1902, has long been too small for its gigantic collection. Only part of the collection, about 44,000 exhibits, can be shown – almost as many pieces again are stored in cellars. The long-planned new structure is now moving into the implementation phase: about 20km/12mi south-west of Cairo on the road to the El-Fayoum oasis, the foundation stone was laid for the new museum building, whose dimensions will make it the largest historical museum in the world. A library, an archive, restoration workshops and an international research centre are also being built here.
Don't miss:
The Treasure of Tutankhamun
Also of great artistic significance: the tomb treasures of Queen Hetepheres, the mother of Cheops, and the jewellery collection.
The Hall of mummies