Egyptian Museum Cairo

commonly known as Egyptian Museum (Arabic المتحف المصري), it is located in Cairo (Egypt), and holds the greatest collection of artifacts from the era of ancient Egypt; It has more than 120,000 classified objects from different periods of Egyptian history.

Since the military campaign in Egypt Napoleon, European interest in Egypt was waking into a real mania for the Pharaonic and old.

During the early nineteenth century, European consuls and treasure hunters, explored throughout the country, some in search of relics and monuments and others in search of gold and precious treasures.

In 1835, the Service des Antiquités de I'Egypte was founded to protect the monuments and treasures of the country in the local and foreign greed. At first, the pieces found were kept in a small building near the current Azbakia area in the center of Cairo and later in the Citadel of Saladin.

However and during the visit of the Austrian Emperor Maximilian, Governor, Egypt Abbas Pasha gave the entire collection.

In 1858, Auguste Mariette prepared another museum, in the neighborhood of Bulaq, who later lost by a flood of the Nile.

In 1878, the contents of the museum Boulaq moved to Giza Palace of the Governor Ismael Pasha, the governor of the country. The collection remained there until the current museum was inaugurated in 1902.

The present building was designed by French architect Marcel Dourgrion in a style neoclassico, thinking it would be the most appropriate for your content. Two of the floors of the museum are devoted to public exhibition and classroom study, in which more than 120,000 pieces of different eras of ancient Egypt, in chronological order in the direction of clockwise is.