North Africa
Egypt
Cairo Governorate

Egyptian Museum

The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, commonly known as the Egyptian Museum and also called the Cairo Museum or the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, is the Egyptological museum which houses the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world, including over 170,000 items.
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  • Opening hours:
    Monday—Saturday: 9:00 AM—9:00 PM
    Sunday: 9:00 AM—4:00 PM
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum in Cairo
  • Also known as: “Al Muthaf al Misri”, “Al Mutḩaf al Mişrī”, “Cairo Egyptian Museum”, “Cairo Museum”, “Egyptian Museum of Antiquities”, “Matḥaf al-Miṣrī”, “Museum nke Egypt”, “Museum of Cairo”, “Museum of Egyptian Antiquities”, “Ụlọ ihe ngosi nka Cairo”, and “Ụlọ ihe ngosi nka nke Cairo”
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Tahrir Square and Cairo Tower.

Square
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, also known as Martyr Square, is a public in , . The square has been the location and focus for political demonstrations. is situated 430 metres southeast of Egyptian Museum.

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The is a free-standing concrete in , . At 187 m, it was the tallest structure in Egypt for 37 years until 1998, when it was surpassed by the Suez Canal overhead powerline crossing. is situated 1 km west of Egyptian Museum.

Work of art
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is a work of art, which is situated 120 metres southwest of Egyptian Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Arab League and Downtown Cairo.

Locality
The , officially the League of Arab States, is a regional organization in the Arab world. The was formed in on 22 March 1945, initially with seven members: Egypt, Iraq, Transjordan, , , Syria, and North Yemen.

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is the commercial heart of the modern city of . In addition to hosting the Egyptian Museum, Downtown is the convenient location of many smaller hotels, retail outlets, travel agencies and restaurants.

Suburb
is a neighborhood in downtown . The Egyptian Ministry of Interior was formerly located there. square is the oldest square in Cairo, dating back to the Mamluk era.

Egyptian Museum

Latitude
30.04785° or 30° 2′ 52″ north
Longitude
31.2336° or 31° 14′ 1″ east
Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)
Height
16 metres (52 feet)
Open location code
8G2H26XM+4C
Open­Street­Map ID
way 10873198
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­museum
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Geo­Names ID
7922588
Wiki­data ID
Q201219
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Egyptian Museum” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “المتحف المصري”
  • Arabic: “متحف الآثار المصرية”
  • Arabic: “متحف الآثار بالقاهرة”
  • Arabic: “متحف القاهرة”
  • Arabic: “متحف مصري”
  • Armenian: “Կահիրեի եգիպտական թանգարան”
  • Asturian: “Muséu Exipcianu d’El Cairu”
  • Asturian: “Muséu Exipciu del Cairu”
  • Basque: “Kairoko Egiptoar Museoa”
  • Belarusian: “Каірскі егіпецкі музей”
  • Bengali: “মিশরীয় জাদুঘর”
  • Bosnian: “Egipatski muzej u Kairu”
  • Bosnian: “Egipatski muzej”
  • Bulgarian: “Египетски музей”
  • Bulgarian: “Музей в Кайро”
  • Catalan: “Museu Arqueològic de El Caire”
  • Catalan: “Museu d’Antiguitats de El Caire”
  • Catalan: “Museu d’Antiguitats del Caire”
  • Catalan: “Museu d’Antiguitats Egípcies”
  • Central Kurdish: “مۆزەخانەی میسر”
  • Chinese: “埃及博物館”
  • Chinese: “开罗博物馆”
  • Chinese: “开罗国家博物馆”
  • Chinese: “开罗埃及博物馆”
  • Chinese: “開羅國家博物館”
  • Croatian: “Egipatski muzej Kairо”
  • Croatian: “Egipatski muzej u Kairu”
  • Croatian: “Egipatski muzej”
  • Czech: “Egyptian Museum”
  • Czech: “Egyptské muzeum v Káhiře”
  • Czech: “Egyptské muzeum”
  • Danish: “Det Egyptiske Museum”
  • Dutch: “Egyptisch Museum (Cairo)”
  • Dutch: “Egyptisch museum”
  • Dutch: “Egyptisch Museum”
  • Dutch: “Museum der Egyptische oudheden”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “المتحف المصرى”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “المتحف المصري”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “متحف الأثار المصرية”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “متحف الأثار المصريه”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “متحف الاثار المصريه”
  • Esperanto: “Egipta muzeo en Kairo”
  • Finnish: “Egyptiläinen museo”
  • French: “Musee egyptien du Caire”
  • French: “musée égyptien du Caire”
  • French: “Musée égyptien du Caire”
  • French: “Musée égyptien”
  • Galician: “Museo de O Cairo”
  • Galician: “Museo do Cairo”
  • Galician: “Museo Exipcio do Cairo”
  • Georgian: “ეგვიპტის მუზეუმი”
  • Georgian: “კაიროს მუზეუმი”
  • German: “Ägyptisches Museum Kairo”
  • German: “Ägyptisches Museum”
  • German: “Ägyptisches Nationalmuseum”
  • Greek: “Αιγυπτιακό Μουσείο”
  • Greek: “Μουσείο Αιγυπτιακών Αρχαιοτήτων Καΐρου”
  • Greek: “Μουσείο Αιγυπτιακών Αρχαιοτήτων”
  • Greek: “Μουσείο του Καΐρου”
  • Hebrew: “המוזיאון המצרי”
  • Hindi: “मिस्र का संग्रहालय”
  • Hungarian: “Egyiptomi Múzeum”
  • Icelandic: “Egypska forngripasafnið í Kaíró”
  • Igbo: “Ụlọ ihe ngosi nka nke Egypt”
  • Indonesian: “Museum Mesir”
  • Irish: “Músaem na hÉigipte”
  • Italian: “Museo Bulaq”
  • Italian: “Museo del Cairo”
  • Italian: “Museo di antichità egiziane”
  • Italian: “Museo egizio del Cairo”
  • Italian: “Museo egizio”
  • Italian: “Museo Egizio”
  • Japanese: “エジプト考古学博物館”
  • Japanese: “カイロ博物館”
  • Korean: “이집트 고고학 박물관”
  • Korean: “이집트 박물관”
  • Korean: “카이로 박물관”
  • Latin: “Museum Aegyptium”
  • Lithuanian: “Kairo Egipto muziejus”
  • Malayalam: “ഈജിപ്ഷ്യൻ മ്യൂസിയം”
  • Mazanderani: “مصر موزه”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Det egyptiske museet i Kairo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Det egyptiske museet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Det historiske museum i Kairo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Det egyptiske museet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Egyptisk Museum”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Historisk museum i Kairo”
  • Norwegian: “Det egyptiske museet”
  • Persian: “موزه قاهره”
  • Persian: “موزه مصر”
  • Persian: “موزهٔ مصر”
  • Polish: “Muzeum Egipskie w Kairze”
  • Polish: “Muzeum Egipskie”
  • Portuguese: “Museu do Cairo”
  • Portuguese: “Museu Egípcio do Cairo”
  • Portuguese: “Museu Egípcio”
  • Romanian: “Egyptian Museum”
  • Romanian: “Muzeul Egiptean din Cairo”
  • Romanian: “Muzeul Egiptean”
  • Russian: “Египетский музей в Каире”
  • Russian: “Египетский музей”
  • Russian: “Каирский египетский музей”
  • Russian: “Каирский музей”
  • Russian: “Музей Египта в Каире”
  • Scots: “Egyptian museum”
  • Serbian: “Egipatski muzej u Kairu”
  • Serbian: “Egipatski muzej”
  • Serbian: “Египатски музеј (Каиро)”
  • Serbian: “Египатски музеј Каиро”
  • Serbian: “Египатски музеј у Каиру”
  • Serbian: “Египатски музеј”
  • Serbian: “Музеј египатских старина”
  • Serbian: “Музеј Каира”
  • Serbian: “المتحف المصري”
  • Serbian: “‏المتحف المصري‎”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Egipatski muzej”
  • Sinhala: “ඊජිප්තු කෞතුකාගාරය”
  • Slovak: “Al-Mathaf al-misrí”
  • Slovak: “Egyptské múzeum v Káhire”
  • Slovenian: “Egipčanski muzej, Kairo”
  • Slovenian: “Egipčanski muzej”
  • Spanish: “Museo de Antigüedades Egipcias”
  • Spanish: “Museo de El Cairo”
  • Spanish: “Museo del Cairo”
  • Spanish: “Museo Egipcio de El Cairo”
  • Spanish: “Museo Egipcio”
  • Spanish: “Museo Nacional de Egipto”
  • Swedish: “Egyptiska museet”
  • Tagalog: “Ehipsiyong Museo”
  • Tagalog: “Ehiptong Museo”
  • Tamil: “எகிப்திய அருங்காட்சியகம்”
  • Thai: “พิพิธภัณฑ์อียิปต์”
  • Turkish: “Kahire Mısır Müzesi”
  • Turkish: “Mısır Müzesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Єгипетський музей”
  • Ukrainian: “Каїрський єгипетський музей”
  • Ukrainian: “Каїрський музей”
  • Urdu: “مصری عجائب گھر”
  • Uzbek: “Qohira Misr muzeyi”
  • Vietnamese: “Bảo tàng Ai Cập”
  • Vietnamese: “Viện bảo tàng Ai Cập”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Museo Ehiptano”
  • Yue Chinese: “埃及博物館”

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