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Egyptian Museum
Newest Review: ... reached capacity and it took a couple of hours to offload my camera - Please Be Warned! Once inside, I wouldn't recommend using a guide, unless you are with a tour group and have limited visiting time. A good guide book is ESSENTIAL as many of the exhibits are either poorly labelled or not at all. Unfortunatly the museum shop doesn't sell any decent guides, so make sure you have one before ... more  ... you arrive. In an emergency - exit the museum through the front gate and walk 100 yard up the road directly in front of you. On the right you will see an enclosed courtyard which has a bank and a few shops - you'll be able to get a decent guidebook the...more |
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Egyptian Museum: The Treasures of Egypt (625 words)
by netuser247 - written on 09.04.06 (Very useful, 101 readings)
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The Egyptian museum is without doubt a must see experience if you are visiting Cairo. The museum houses the finest collection of Egyptian antiquites in the world and is the permanent home to the Tutankhamun collection. The basic entry ticket (around £3) allows access to all areas of the museum except the royal mummies room, for which there is an additional fee. Contrary to what is written in most travel guide books NO cameras are permitted into the museum (they stopped selling camera permits around 2004) so don't bring one!. Security checks take place both at the main entrance to the grounds and as you enter the museum. If you have a camera, you ...
Simply Awe-Inspiring (803 words)
by sandyback75 - written on 15.12.05 (Very useful, 247 readings)
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The treasures of ancient Egypt are some of the most sought after in the world. This museum houses what is arguably the best collection of ancient artefacts. The museum is divided into several rooms on two floors, from the outside the museum looks quite small, I was expecting it to look bigger, but it is deceptively large inside. The museum is a kind of rusty colour on the outside and looks quite old. The main reason that this museum is so famous is that it houses the majority of the finds from King Tutankhamen's tomb that was discovered by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon in 1922 after decades of searching. It is the only tomb found intact to this ...
Egyptian Museum: Mummy's the word! (229 words)
by moronboy - written on 05.09.00 (Very useful, 58 readings)
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We went to the Egyptian Museum as part of a tour, but to be honest, we deliberately lost the tour party because I think that with this kind of place you need to wander at will and just see what interests you. A decent guide book (the Rough Guide) or something from the Museum itself will give you enough information. I would recommend the Mummy room, for which you need to pay extra, purely because the mummies are incredibly well-preserved and absolutely fascinating. Also, the guards in this room let us take pictures, even though it is forbidden (bribery really does grease the wheels in Egypt, let me tell you). There is a huge crowd around the Golden face ...
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