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Tuesday 28 October 2014

Museums Tourism in Egypt

Museums Tourism 

The museum is not a place for entertainment only .. It is a place that combines culture, education and entertainment, and the inventory of his goal and purpose of the entertainment is a disadvantage to his message, which establishes a "culture museum" or "museum awareness" .. It -as defined by "international museums organization" ICOM, a professional organization international was founded in 1948, aims to increase the level of workers in museums and unify Jhodhm- "Institute noncommercial works on community service and development, continues and displays all respect to human beings and the environment for the purpose of study, culture and fun, and is open to the general public and various levels."
The museum and then one of the means of communication, which is an educational institution does not comply with certain enacted, the Foundation maintains a humanitarian, historical and natural heritage, as well as entertainment and tourism side, so most of the countries concerned with the establishment of museums; to preserve the history and heritage.
The museum is our window on the past, and has the ability to connect the past culture has been largely unable to express them about books or drawn in the mind of the reader, it is sufficient, for example, watching a particular statue or papyrus or an old machine even aware of her scenes extent to which the ancients of progress.

Egypt has a large number of museums, which are an important component of the tourist attractions in Egypt, including: -


The Egyptian Museum

The first Egyptian museums establishment year (1279 AH = 1863), unique set archeological Pharaonic wonderful and has a quarter-million artifact tells the history of ancient Egypt, the Geological Museum of the year (1319 AH = 1901), Coptic Museum year (1326 AH = 1908).

Museum of Islamic Art








Islamic Museum was established in (1298 AH = 1881) featuring the rarest and the greatest collection of artifacts and relics and treasures that have been creativity in the light of Islamic civilization and comprises about eighty thousand masterpiece of porcelain, pottery, glass, crystal rock, fabric and carpet, metals, jewelry, wood, ivory and precious stones.

Jewel Palace Museum

Featuring ancient throne room and some furniture pieces from the era of Muhammad Ali as well as many of the Islamic relics.

Manial Palace Museum

Built on an area of ​​the center of the Arab-style garden containing 30 acres of trees and rare archaeological museum contains Islamic manuscripts and textiles embroidered in addition to the rare collections of carpets and crystal glassware and candlesticks.

Greek Museum








Includes a large number of art historical value that artifacts dating back to the era before Christmas is found in Alexandria.

Aswan Museum

It features a collection of relics found in Aswan and Nubia, including the mummy of the sacred ram god Khnum.

Mahmoud Mukhtar Museum

Inspired by the work comprises of the ancient Egyptian civilization museum, is the most important artifacts left by Mahmoud Mokhtar Egyptian Renaissance carved from granite, primarily in the face of Cairo University.

Museum of Fine Arts

Includes a large number of works of sculpture, photography, architecture.

Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum

Production featuring masterpieces from the French school and the most influential museum's holdings of paintings, bronze sculptures and photography and a wide range of metal antiques, glassware and a group of Japanese antiques Lucky.

The Egyptian Museum of Art

Featuring modern Fine Arts.

The Coptic Museum








Of the most important cultural institutions that preserve its heritage and the Coptic museum includes 14 thousand artifact enrich the heritage of Coptic art in the world.

Mahmoud Said Museum in Alexandria

Includes a large number of his works in painting, which earned him an international reputation in the field of Fine Art.

Royal Jewelry Museum in Alexandria

Was held in the Palace of Fatima Zahra Ziznaa District, a rare architectural masterpiece includes many wonderful paintings and rare statues and ornaments, as well as a range of jewelry Muhammad Ali dynasty rare and precious halls.

Museum of Fine Arts in Alexandria








Famous museums in the Alexandria Museum of Fine Arts, and has a collection of works of art, ranging from drawings that represent rural life to the surrealist paintings, and exhibitions of the work of contemporary artists: Egyptian and world-class on a regular basis, as is held every two years, Alexandria Biennale.
Featuring works of sculpture, photography and architecture and is held by many of the exhibitions of foreign artists and Egyptians Almasrien, and oversees management of the museum to organize Alexandria Biennale, which is held every two years and brings together arts Mediterranean countries.

Institute of Aquatic Biology and Museum in Alexandria

There Anfoushi area next to the Citadel and includes a rare collection of fish and aquatic.

Military Museum

Inside the Citadel of Saladin in Cairo, which contains models of weapons, clothing and pictures of soldiers Egypt military battles fought by the Egyptian people since the days of the Mamluks until the sixth of October 1973 war.

Maritime Museum

Established within the historic Citadel in Alexandria and includes in its contents Heritage summary submitted by Egypt to humanity through its navigation of civilized values ​​of precious and additions in the fields of knowledge and the arts and economic activity and trade exchange as well as the maritime glory that recorded by Egypt on the ages and formed a national heritage of the nation at all times.

El Alamein Museum

Includes all types of weapons used by the Germans and the British in World War II and has a three-dimensional models and pictures of battles and leaders of the operations of all the Axis powers and the Allies There are also some other museums such as: Nagy Museum and the Museum of railway building Egypt station and has more than 100 model of the means of ancient and modern, and the Museum of Mansoura transport and is located in Dar Ibn Luqman Donshway Museum and the Museum of mail and wax Museum.

Sinai Heritage Museum

This museum seeks to preserve the local heritage in the North Sinai Governorate compilation and documented.
It features sections specializing in all branches of this heritage, namely:


Department of Agricultural and traditional tools.
Department of wood and pottery and brassware.
Bedouin poetry section house and homes Alareicheh.
Artisan Production Department (Alaclmh / textile / handloom / dresses / Almtrosat / traditional local crafts and industries).
People's Department of Medicine.
Listening and viewing section (movies / video / prints / cards / library and documentaries).

Egyptian Agricultural Museum









Egyptian Agricultural Museum

Is one of the largest museums in the world where agriculture represents in ancient times, which allows the visitor to identify the evolution of life in the Egyptian countryside.
There is in Giza in Egypt, a -hmal neighborhoods "Doki" This is a huge museum, which includes 7 large museums located, and larger than 30 acres (125 thousand square meters), opened for more than 60 years, the first agricultural museum in the world, It has thousands of exhibits dealing with the history of agriculture in Egypt since the early beginnings of human steps on the land of Egypt, and even the present era.
A decision was made on the day of its inception (18 Jumada II 1348 AH = 21 November 1929 m) to establish the Egyptian Agricultural Museum Bsoeri Princess "Fatma Ismail," donated by the Egyptian University.
Been received Serail and processing, including suits to be a museum, and opened the museum at (15 from a November 1356 e = 16 January 1938 AD) and he was in the beginning, "the first Fouad Museum agricultural", and was designed to record and display the evolution of Egyptian agriculture, as the Egypt of the country prestigious in the field of agriculture, the Egyptian and played a major role in the development of agriculture and invent their equipment.
Agricultural Museum reached an area of ​​about 30 acres (125 thousand square meters), including museums and buildings occupy about 20 thousand square meters, and the rest of the museum garden area includes multiple types of rare trees and plants, and landscaping; in addition to the parks on the pharaonic style.
The museum owns anecdotes value does not exist anywhere in the world, including the presence of extinct plant does not exist only in the museum, a plant "Barads" which is sacred to the Pharaohs, where the museum leaves and fruits of this plant and the leg keeps.
The museum also houses Mjursca (machine for grinding grain) dating back to 15 thousand years, and hundreds of photographs, and a large number of paintings and Almakaitat past that make you live and you between her hands.
Includes Agricultural Museum -halaa- seven museums using the latest display modes, and in ways that scientific upscale in terms of lighting, air and the view, because the majority of the exhibits in the museum of the organic materials that react with moisture and light, so I used some modern devices to address some of the radiation types in "Vatrinat "premiere, and devices to absorb moisture scientific methods minutes. The display the museum's holdings in accordance with the scientific and historical method; where the exhibits were chosen to complement the picture painted by trying every museum or delivered to the visitor or specialist.

Ancient Egyptian Agriculture Museum

This is the latest and most important museum in the world museum tells the history of Egyptian agriculture from the prehistoric age to the end of the Pharaonic era, has established a new building for the museum, opened in (7 from a November 1416 = 26 March 1996 m), and consists of two floors.
The museum includes three thousand artifacts, including some extremely rare effects, such as: plant "Barads" extinct, and the coffin of a child dating back to BC by 3 thousand years, before the prophet of God, "Moses," peace be upon him more than a thousand years, and the remnants of the bones of sentences dating back to five thousand years, and a small silo to store grain dating to 8 thousand years, and a crocodile Indigo mummified with a length of 5 meters, and the mummy is extremely rare for Ghazala mummified, and wheat in the ear, dating back to more than a thousand years before the prophet of God, "Joseph," peace be upon him and leaves Brady, pens Pharaonic writing on papyrus, and bread and pies, including stuffed Baltin of wheat flour cake dating back to 1500 BC, and textiles are rare, such as a piece of woven-called "air dress" or royal fabric which features carefully weaving, smoothness, and indicates expert and engineer, "Mohamed El Akkad," head of research at the museum that this tissue was testing the quality of the Pharaohs through pass through the entire dress ring, but the tissues subjected to punishment.
The museum also houses some of the cartoons since the Pharaohs, and a circular royal prohibiting beneficial animals hunting in the fight against agricultural pests, and play old children, and a knife rarely stone flint, rare collection of baskets, ropes and "sandals" pots and crops. There are museum hall Dioramat embodying some scenes of harvest and agriculture in ancient Egypt. It also established a garden in front of the museum on the pharaonic style.

Agriculture Museum in Greco-Roman and Coptic and Islamic

This museum presents the second episode of the development of agriculture in Egypt after the ancient Egyptian Agriculture Museum, which covers the historical period stretching from (332 BC) to the nineteenth century. Faced with this Pharaonic museum's garden, the basin water by bulrush, and contains a wooden axes of the Pharaonic era, and axes made ​​of bronze from the Roman era, and a weapon rarely to plow from the Greek era, and pottery rare some dating to before the birth, and bladders rare was used in extraction of butter from the Roman era, and some weave ancient linen tools, and skull buffalo from the Islamic era; as the Muslims are the ones who brought the buffalo to Egypt, and the mummy dog Mkvna enough for us a wonderful return to BC, and skeletons of a dog kept in the wax of the First Dynasty (3000 BC M.), and stuffed fish.

Scientific groups Museum

This museum is the main core agricultural museum, a Princess "Fatima Ismail" Palace, also called "Animal Museum" and "Wax Museum", and consists of two floors, and putting the lives of the rural community and related industries and the habits and occasions and fashion, through statues depicting that life, and chambers of land and water, such as the High Dam of Aswan reservoir compartment, and animal models of devices, and common diseases among human, animal, and insect groups, and a variety of maps.

Museum of the plant kingdom

This museum includes performances for all field crops and horticultural species, have been building this museum, and he took a year (1354 AH = 1935), and consists of two floors, and has compartments for wheat and barley, and the lobby of the loaf, and the Chamber of corn, rice, onions and garlic, and agricultural machinery, and photographs of agricultural operations. The upper floor of this museum Fajss fiber plants such as flax, and lobby for pulses and fodder, and room for sugar cane, fruit, and vegetables, and anthropomorphic model of the ancient Egyptian Agricultural months.

Arab lobby

This was opened in the lobby (17 of zero 1381 = 30 July 1961 m) and includes holdings of Syria on the agricultural and rural activity, such as handicrafts, fabrics, and some oil paintings.

Cotton Museum

This museum was opened in (24 Rabi 1417 = 9 September 1996 m) and oversaw outfitted expert engineer "Mohamed El Akkad." This museum is unique and there is a group of the rarest genetic origins of Egyptian and foreign cotton, and equipped with the latest display modes.
The museum consists of two floors with great, and has a map of Egyptian cotton that have emerged since 1918 varieties, and pictures of some celebrity employed cotton, and statistics on cotton and dates of cultivation area, in addition to 10 showrooms major cover cotton thread historically, scientifically, and a number of manuscripts for cotton, which manuscript is due to (79 m).

Antiquities museum

It is the third museum is created in the agricultural museum in the period from 1990 until 2002, and consists of two floors and includes a "Makita" microcosm of the agricultural museum, and museums included by, and a statue of Princess Fatima, and cannons old since 1889, and paintings are rare, and works Arabesque, and the painting of all museum directors, and a number of rare antique collectibles distributed (21) chamber width, which covers the period from the Roman era and until the twentieth century.

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