Aswan Museum
Aswan Museum is a museum in Elephantine, located on the south-eastern side of Aswan, Egypt. It was set up in 1912 by the British Egyptologist Cecil Mallaby Firth.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Elephantine and Pyramid of Elefantine.
Elephantine
Island
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Elephantine is an island on the Nile, forming part of the city of Aswan in Upper Egypt. The archaeological digs on the island became a World Heritage Site in 1979, along with other examples of Upper Egyptian architecture, as part of the "Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae".
Pyramid of Elefantine
The pyramid of Elephantine is part of a group of seven very similar small step pyramids, along with the pyramids at Edfu South, el-Kula, Naqada, Zawyet el-Maiyitin, Seila, and Sinki. Pyramid of Elefantine is situated 160 metres northwest of Aswan Museum.Nubian Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Nubian Museum is an archaeological museum in Aswan, Upper Egypt. It was built in 23 November 1997 following the UNESCO International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia. Nubian Museum is situated 650 metres south of Aswan Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aswan and Shellal.
Aswan
Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt, some 870 km south of Cairo, just below the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, with a population of 275,000. Aswan is far more relaxed and smaller than Cairo and Luxor.
Shellal
Village
Shellal is a small ancient village on the banks of the Nile, south of Aswan in Upper Egypt. It was the traditional northern frontier of the Nubian region with both the Egyptian Empire and the Roman Empire. Shellal is situated 4 km south of Aswan Museum.
Aswan Museum
- Type: Museum
- Description: museum on the island of Elephantine, Aswan, Egypt
- Categories: building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Aswan Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
24.08498° or 24° 5′ 6″ northLongitude
32.88699° or 32° 53′ 13″ eastInception
1912Open location code
7GPJ3VMP+XQOpenStreetMap ID
way 554848968OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q535586
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yoruba—“Aswan Museum” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “متحف أسوان”
- Catalan: “museu d’Assuan”
- Catalan: “Museu d’Assuan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “متحف اسوان”
- German: “Assuan-Museum”
- Hausa: “Gidan Kayan Tarihi Na Aswan”
- Japanese: “アスワン博物館”
- Persian: “موزه اسوان”
- Spanish: “Museo de Asuan”
- Spanish: “Museo de Asuán”
- Urdu: “عجائب گھر اسوان”
- Yoruba: “Aswan Museum”
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