Luxor Museum of Ancient Egyptian Art travel guide

The Luxor Museum for Ancient Egyptian Art, a plain modern building by Egyptian architect Mahmud el-Hakim, lies on the Nile about 1km/0.5mi north of the Luxor Temple, approximately halfway to the temple precinct of Karnak

It primarily houses recent finds from the area around Thebes. In the outdoor area in front of the museum, various works, among them a statue of Amenhotep III from Qurna and a stele with an image of Amenhotep II as an archer from Karnak, are exhibited. In the entrance hall, note the head of a colossal statue of Amenhotep III on the right (red granite, from Qurna), and in the side rotunda, the gilded head of a cow goddess, part of the tomb treasure of Tutankhamun. From the entrance hall, a few steps lead to the main gallery on the ground floor. Here, do not fail to take a look at the alabaster figures with Amenhotep III in the protection of the crocodile god Sobek (from Dahamsha), the head of Sesostris III, found in Karnak and made from reddish granite, the statue of Tuthmosis III made from greenish greywacke (also from Karnak), the bust of Amenhotep II with the double crown of reddish granite (Karnak) as well as a large, historically significant limestone stele which reports of the victory of Kamose over the Hyksos (from Karnak). A cube stool of Jamu-Nedjeh, made from black granite, originates from Qurna in the Nile valley. The most interesting exhibits include a box with canopic jars from the temple of Queen Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari, a seated image of the writing vizier Amenhotep (son of Hapu; 12th dynasty) of black granite; a head of Akhenaten in the early Amarna style, as well as some reliefs from the granite chapel of Queen Hatshepsut in the temple of Karnak. The upper floor also houses the finest piece in the museum, a reconstruction of the 17m/56ft-long and nearly 3m/10ft-high Wall of Akhenaten. It consists of 283 out of a total of 6,000 relief-decorated and painted sandstone blocks (Talatat) of the ninth pylon of Horemheb, which was part of the sun temple of Akhenaten in Karnak and was found in 1968/1969 during restoration work. The right half of the wall shows temple servants carrying out everyday duties.

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