Luxor Museum

Luxor Museum is located between two famous temples - Luxor m Karnak. It was opened in 1975, in its exposition - masterpieces found during archaeological excavations in the vicinity of ancient Thebes, on the site of which modern Luxor is located.

The collection of the museum is not very large, it has about 400 exhibits. Here you can see statues, mummies, objects from ancient tombs, papyrus scrolls, painted reliefs, precious jewelry. Almost all the exhibits are perfectly preserved.

The pearls of the collection are the head of a giant granite sculpture of Amenhotep III, installed at the entrance to the main halls, a wooden gilded head of the goddess Meheturet in the form of a cow, a miniature sphinx of Tutankhamun and an alabaster statue of the goddess Mut.

The exposition is periodically replenished with modern finds of archaeologists. The museum has a gift shop. Photography is forbidden here.