Best Museums in Egypt
Egypt is home to 9 world-class museums across 5 cities, from ancient art and archaeology to modern and contemporary collections.
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Cairo
The Egyptian Museum
Home to an extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities.
Founded 1902
Cairo
Coptic Museum
The world's foremost collection of Coptic Christian art, in Old Cairo.
Founded 1908
Cairo
Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo
Holding one of the world's most important collections of Islamic art, with works from across fourteen centuries.
Founded 1881
Cairo
National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC)
A vast new museum in Fustat that traces Egypt from prehistory through the Coptic and Islamic eras to today.
Founded 2017
Cairo
Gayer-Anderson Museum
Two restored Mamluk houses in Old Cairo filled with the eclectic collection of British officer R. G. Gayer-Anderson.
Founded 1942
Giza
Grand Egyptian Museum
The largest archaeological museum in the world, on the Giza Plateau within sight of the pyramids.
Founded 2024
Alexandria
Graeco-Roman Museum of Alexandria
Alexandria's principal antiquities museum, devoted to the Hellenistic and Roman city.
Founded 1892
Luxor
Luxor Museum
An elegantly curated museum of antiquities found in and around ancient Thebes.
Founded 1975
Aswan
Nubian Museum
An Aga Khan Award-winning museum dedicated to the heritage of Nubia, much of it submerged by Lake Nasser.
Founded 1997