martedì 31 gennaio 2012

 









About the Museum
Established the interest of Egyptian antiquities in 15/8/1835 and held the first museum to save the Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo, in a small building in the garden of Uzbek then moved to the Citadel of Saladin, and then donated to the Khedive Abbas, Crown Prince of Austria in 1855.

Established in 1858, "Mareb" and was director of the interests of another small museum on the shore of the Nile in Bulaq and then moved again to Giza in 1891.Work began on the current museum was inaugurated in 1897 in 15/11/1902 in the Khedive, "Abbas Hilmi II," the museum building was designed by French architect Marcel N. Role of the updated classic style and the concrete used for the first time in the construction in Egypt.

· Composition of the museum:Consists of two floors and takes into account two main halls in the ease of communication traffic and there are now about the museum: the impact of 160 thousand of different ages. And displays in the basement effects large stone where there are arranged historically from the entrance and left by a clockwise direction and we find there are some of the effects of pre-dynastic and dynastic early and raised the Old Kingdom and Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom and Late Period and Greco-Roman period.The upper floor show how it sets the quality of the statues of deities, manuscripts and royal mummies and coffins of wood, jewelry, integrated sets of a single tomb, such as the effects of Tutankhamun and raised Youssoaa and Thwaia and the effects of Tanis and the effects of the Valley of the Kings and the effects of a cemetery Sndjem and the effects of a cemetery Madjer Barre .. There is the museum includes a large library of books of archeology and history, civilizations and religions, different languages ​​and there is also a section for photography and some of the maps make it easy for the visitor to follow the effects of numbers and halls in the museum attached maps loft.

· Address:Cairo - Tahrir Square - street sound good· Phone5794596 -5796948 - 5796974·

 
Admission prices:Two pounds for the Egyptians - Egyptian pounds for students and one for the foreign students and residents of 10 pounds - for Egyptians in the holidays £ 1 - £ 20 for foreigners.Hall of mummies in the Egyptian Museum for foreign students and residents of 30 poundsHall of mummies in the Egyptian Museum for foreigners 40 pounds

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