Museum of the Egyptian Geographical Society

The Museum of the National Geographical Society of Egypt includes a small historical library, a meeting room and an ethnographic museum. This is not the most famous museum in Cairo, but it is no less interesting than the others.

The museum’s collection includes exhibits from the 18th to the early 20th century. Here you can see the reconstruction of the life and customs of the indigenous population of Egypt. Attention should be recreated hairdresser and carriage of the newlyweds. Sometimes the museum undergoes historical reconstructions of scenes from the life of the aborigines, visitors are treated to national dishes, which are prepared immediately.

In one of the halls of the museum there are exhibits brought from expeditions to the African continent: spears and shields of soldiers of local tribes, elephant tusks, stuffed crocodile.

In the library you can see ancient maps, data from censuses of the population of Egypt in the 20th century, photos of the Egyptian desert.