Egyptian Museum

 

Egyptian Museum Established interest in Egyptian antiquities on 15/8/1835 and held the first museum of Egyptian antiquities conservation in Cairo in a small building in the garden of Alazbugeh then moved to the citadel of Saladin, then calmed down cheeks Abbas to the Crown Prince of Austria in 1855.

Egyptian Museum

Egyptian Museum It was established in 1858 "By Mareb" The director of the interests of another small museum on the beach of the Nile in Boulaq then moved again to Giza in 1891. Work began in the current museum and was inaugurated in 1897 on 15/11/1902 in the cheek "Abbas Hilmi II," was designed by museum building engineer Frenchman Marcel role of N-style classic updated and reinforced concrete used for the first time in construction in Egypt.

 

Egyptian Museum

Egyptian Museum The composition of the museum: Two-storey main contact and takes into account the hall's easy passage, there is currently approximately Museum: 160 thousand impacts of various ages. Presents in the basement where there are large stone order, starting with a historic entrance and left as clockwise, we find there are some of the effects before the era of dynasties and the early dynasties and the effects of old age of State and the State Central and modern state and then the late era Greco-Roman era.

 

Egyptian Museum

 

Egyptian Museum The upper floor offers sets the quality of manuscripts and statues of gods and Anwar ownership and wooden coffins, jewelry, and packages from one cemetery such as the effects of Tutankhamen and the effects Thuita Bossuyt, and the effects of Tanis and the effects of the Valley of the Kings and the effects and consequences of sexually cemetery Amager Prix. There is a great museum library that includes literature, history and civilizations and religions, different languages and there is also a section for photography and some maps it is easy for the visitor to follow the figures and rooms in the museum maps annexed to the top role.

 

Egyptian Museum

 

Address: CAIRO - Tahrir Square - Salim Hassan Street Phone 5794596 -5796948 - 5796974 Prices of entry: The Egyptians have two pounds - for students and one Egyptian pound and foreign students and residents 10 pounds - for Egyptians in the holidays 1 pound - 20 pounds for foreigners. Hall Anwar Egyptian Museum for foreign students and residents of 30 pounds Hall Anwar Egyptian Museum for foreigners is 40 pounds.