Egyptian Museum

The current Egyptian Museum, designed in 1896 by French engineer Marcel Durno, along classics updated and commensurate with antiques and classical, but it does not compete with ancient Egyptian architecture that still exist.

It should be noted that the vast halls of Interior and high walls. Natural light enters through the glass panels on the roof and windows located on the ground floor. The Lobby of the Central Museum is the highest part of the home where the impacts as they exist in the ancient temples. The length of the building to include any future expansions, as commensurate with the requirements of ease of movement of visitors from the hall to the other.

This has been distributed to the story, the basement of which contains effects such as heavy stone Coffins and statues and paintings and frescoes Inscriptions. The top floor contains presentations with specific topics such as manuscripts, statues and step Moumyawat ownership and the effects of daily life and photographs and sculptures Moumyawat incomplete and statues and utensils era Greek and Romanian special effects of other life beliefs and others.

Statues of this museum

Funereal bed in the form of a cow on both sides

A statue of a man and his wife
The Egyptian Museum is its current field of liberalization in the heart of the capital in place to turn the museum where the outset in 1835 and bureaus had a large number of diverse effects, and then transfer its contents to the museum hall presentation castle second Saladin, and when the world thought the French Egyptologist "Merritt "The Museum was working at, in a visit to Egypt to get some Coptic manuscripts for inclusion in a Paris failed in this task for refusing Church and issued a resolution prohibiting the sale of manuscripts, so decided to stay in Cairo to carry out prospecting in the Saqqara area, has opened a museum presents a series of the effects on the beach when the Nile Bulaq areas, and when the effects of the flood risk in that region has been transferred to a special supplement Palace Alkhaddio Ismail Giza, and then came the world Egyptologist "Jasenon Maspero" opened in 1902 in the era Alkhaddio Abbas Hilmi II new building at the current location in the heart Cairo.
Egyptian museum includes more than 150 thousand pieces of antique most important archaeological groups, which were found in the tombs of kings and footnote Royal Family Central, which was found in Dahshur 1894.
The museum now has the greatest archaeological group in the world reflect on all phases of Egyptian history ancient art of the Old State includes statues Cheops - Menkera - Rajuthb statue-Sheikh country (Kaber) funereal furniture found in a cemetery Anba Horus.
It is the State Central Museum includes statues Siento Hotb II, and models found in a cemetery scarcity legislature and statues Alsenusert III, Amanmohat III, as well as jewelry Special Pamirat Central State (Merrith trampled upon-- - Hanour Mevr Petah-won).
It is the modern state museum includes special Bahont groups jewelry, and statues of Hatcppsot Aminouhtab and trouble-- - Nfrtari Buéa-dress (his father King and wife Amenmahotb) also allocated the north wing of the upper museum to display the treasures of Tutankhamun mulberry Amon, which includes more than 3500 pieces of the museum presents them only 1700 pieces
And does each piece of file information recorded by the computer to assist cylinders and researchers wishing to obtain any information on techniques museum.
Because of the large number of artifacts and precious archaeological collections at the museum, had begun to establish a new museum, befitting the value of Egyptian antiquities and greatness near the pyramids, and work is currently being completed, in 2009.