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Highlights of the Main Museums in Egypt


The Egyptian Museum

Built in 1900, in the neo-classical style by the French architect Marcel Dourgnon. It hosts the largest collection of mummies, artifacts from the tombs of kings, pharoanic sculptures and ancient documents in the world.

Maydan at-Tahrir, Cairo
Total Objects : 142,000

The Egyptian Museum


Islamic Museum

It is regarded as the largest museum in the Middle East, housing 80,000 rare objects dating from the dawn of Islam to the Ottoman period. It Includes works of art from all over the Islamic world, ranging from large architectural pieces rescued from mosques to ceramics, manuscripts and tapestries

352 Ahmed Maher Sq. - Bab El-Khalq, Cairo
Total Objects : 86,438

Rare antiquities


Coptic Museum

The Coptic Museum was founded in Egypt at the beginning of the 20C after the construction of the Egyptian Museum and the Museum of Arab Art. The museum is composed of a ground and upper floor, and its collection is arranged according to categories into seven sections:
Sculpture and Frescoes; Manuscripts; Ancient Text; Icons, Ivory and Bone; Metal work; Wood word; Pottery and Glass.
These are displayed in chronological order to enable the visitor to appreciate the development of art through the centuries.

Mar Girgis St. - Old Cairo (Misr al-Qadimah), Cairo
Total Objects : 15,250

Coptic Museum


The Museum of Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil

The palace of Khalil and his wife was built in 1915, Its eastern side overlooks the Nile. The ground, first and second floors of the palace are used as the museum’s gallery. The great artists represented among the assets of the Museum include Paul Gauguin, Auguste Renoir, Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, John Jongkind and Charles Francois Daubigny. The museum’s assets also include masterpieces of oriental artists such as Eugene Fromentin. The museum also exhibits a collection of vases made in France, China, Japan and Iran, and a big collection of elaborately-made miniature works of art by Chinese artists in precious stones, crystal de Roch, emerald and coral.

1 Kafour St. - Orman Post Office - Giza - Egypt
Total Objects : 1,031

Thesee combats Minotaur


The Graeco-Roman Museum

The collection, which covers the period from the 3rd century BC to the 7th century AD, is a fascinating record of a civilization in the process of change as religions merged and society evolved. In Alexandria, Graeco-Roman and pharaonic religions mingled in the cult of Serapis; the shift from pagan religions to Christianity can also be seen in the exhibits which include mummies, Hellenistic statues, busts of Roman emperors, Tanagra figurines and early Christian antiquities.

Address: Alexandria, Egypt

Bust of the god Sirabis   


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