Egyptian Museum Cairo

Museum Cairo, Egypt

The Egyptian Museum (Arabic المتحف المصري) in Cairo is the world's largest museum of ancient Egyptian art. It contains works from different eras of Ancient Egyptian cultural history: Ancient History, Thinitenzeit, Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom, Third Intermediate Period, and Late Period, and Greco-Roman Period. Located in Al Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, it was built in 1900 according to the plans of the French architect Marcel Dourgnon in a neoclassical style. The opening took place in 1902. Carrier is the current authority Supreme Council of Antiquities, formerly the Antiquities Service of the Arab Republic of Egypt.