Papyrus Museum

The Papyrus Museum has the world’s largest collection of papyri. Fans of graphics and art of Egypt will be able to see the original drawings and recordings made by the hand of the Pharaoh. The museum is located in Vienna, Austria.

The Papyrus Museum, as a historical reliable source of events of Ancient Egypt, reflects the three-thousand-year history of this country.

It is interesting to see the papyri presented in the museum. Preserved to this day, the papyrus is a monument of writing and graphics of Egypt.

It houses the world’s largest collection of papyri. Monuments of writing and graphics of Ancient Egypt, presented to the public, reflect the three thousand-year history of this country.

Now the collection of the Egyptian Museum includes more than 2,000 items from the 3rd millennium BC to the Roman era. The oldest reliefs from royal tombs, mummies, funerary masks, papyri - from the classical sample of Egyptian literature, illustrated by the "Book of the Dead", up to manuscripts of the time of Christianity and the Arab conquest - the results of archaeological research, since 1842 generously subsidized by the Prussian kings, and then the German emperors. Archaeological expeditions of 1911-1914 in Tel el-Amarna, the capital of the Egyptian kingdom under the reformer pharaoh Akhenaten, replenished the museum with exhibits of exceptional quality.