5 cities · 9 museums
Best Museums in Egypt
Independent visitor guides with admission, hours, and collection highlights.
Quick answer
World Museum Guide covers 9 museums in Egypt across 5cities — including Coptic Museum, Gayer-Anderson Museum, Graeco-Roman Museum of Alexandria — with admission prices, opening hours, and highlights for each. Check each guide for current prices and free days.
Planning your visit
How many museums are in Egypt?
World Museum Guide covers 9 museums in Egypt .
What are the best museums in Egypt?
Coptic Museum, Gayer-Anderson Museum, Graeco-Roman Museum of Alexandria, Grand Egyptian Museum, Luxor Museum.
Are museums in Egypt free?
Admission varies — see individual museum pages for prices and free days.
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Cairo
Coptic Museum
The Coptic Museum was founded in 1908 by Marcus Simaika to preserve the art and heritage of Egypt's Christian community. It sits inside the walls of the Roman Babylon Fortress in Old Cairo.
Cairo
Gayer-Anderson Museum
Major Robert Grenville Gayer-Anderson lived in the joined seventeenth-century houses adjacent to the Ibn Tulun Mosque from 1935 to 1942. He bequeathed them and his collection to Egypt on his departure.
Alexandria
Graeco-Roman Museum of Alexandria
Founded in 1892 with finds from Alexandria's classical-era excavations, the Graeco-Roman Museum is Alexandria's principal antiquities museum, devoted to the Hellenistic and Roman city that was once the intellectual capital of the ancient world.
Giza
Grand Egyptian Museum
The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) has been under construction for more than two decades on a 50-hectare site at the foot of the Giza Plateau, within sight of the Pyramids. It is designed to be the largest archaeological museum in the world, housing approximately 100,000 artefacts.
Luxor
Luxor Museum
The Luxor Museum opened in 1975 on the corniche overlooking the Nile, displaying objects excavated from the temples of Karnak and Luxor and from the West Bank tombs of the Valley of the Kings and Queens.
Cairo
Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo
Founded in 1881 inside the Mosque of Baybars, the Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo moved to its current Mamluk-revival building on Bab al-Khalq Square in 1903. It holds one of the world's most important collections of Islamic art, with works from across fourteen centuries.
Cairo
National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC)
Partially opened in 2017 and inaugurated fully in 2021, the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Old Cairo's Fustat district covers Egyptian history holistically — pharaonic, Greco-Roman, Coptic, Islamic, and modern.
Aswan
Nubian Museum
Designed by Egyptian architect Mahmoud El-Hakim, the Nubian Museum in Aswan was built as part of the UNESCO campaign that also saved the temples of Abu Simbel from the rising waters of Lake Nasser. It opened in 1997 and won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
Cairo
The Egyptian Museum
The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, known commonly as the Egyptian Museum or Museum of Cairo, in Cairo, Egypt, is home to an extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities. It has 120,000 items, with a representative amount on display and the remainder in storerooms.