The Egyptian Museum

The Egyptian Museum

The Egyptian Museum of Cairo is located in the center of the city, in Tahrir Square, in a neoclassical building designed by Marcel Dourgnon and opened in 1902. At the time of opening to the public had about 12,000 pieces, a fund that over the years grew significantly to reach today a figure close to 150,000 artifacts.

Museum of Egyptian Antiquities

The Egyptian museum has two floors, the first floor houses the heavy pieces, the stone sarcophagi, giant stone stelae and architectural fragments. The upper floor houses the treasures found in the tombs and temples, it is where is the treasure of the intact tomb of Tutankhamun and other treasures in gold of different pharaohs and the room of the mummies of the great pharaohs of Egypt, one of the mummies is of the great pharaoh Ramses II.

The gardens of the Egyptian museum decorated by many authentic pieces, a pond for the lotus flower and the papyrus plant, granite sphinxes, figurines and small obelisks.

All the pieces in the Egyptian museum are authentic, except the Rosetta stone, which is a replica because the original is in England in the London museum. The Egyptian Museum in Cairo, undoubtedly the most important in the world in terms of Egyptology, are thousands of tourists who come on excursions and guided tours to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

What was the Egyptian Museum built for?

Due to the large number of expeditions throughout the country and all the artifacts found in these, they were forced to build a place to house all the pharaonic samples (jewelry, statues, sarcophagi, mummies, etc.) in order to exhibit them and let the world know their wonder.
Thanks to the collection, organization and exhibition of all these pieces, people from all over the globe have been able to see the culture, traditions and more of ancient Egypt up close.

The King Tut artifacts in The Egyptian Museum

On the upper floor, we find the treasure of Tutankhamun and a set of objects exhibited in chronological order belonging to the last dynasties, including those of the XXI and XXII dynasties of Tanis, including the gold mask of the pharaoh Psusennes I. The collection ends with the display of several pieces from the Roman period.

There are still a large number of objects in storage, located in the basement of the museum that have not been documented, including those from about 600 tombs. To solve this problem of insufficient space, the Egyptian authorities have been planning for more than a decade the construction of a new Grand Egyptian Museum located on the esplanade of Giza. Its inauguration seems to be getting closer every day.

Curious Facts About The Egyptian Museum

In the basements of the museum, there are about 600 mummies badly registered and others not registered yet.
It is expected, with a new project and with the help of new technology, to classify them according to their genealogy and thus be able to complete the families of the various Egyptian kings of each period.
The museum also houses masterpieces dating from the Predynastic to the Greco-Roman periods.