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The 4 best activities in the Museum of Alexandria, Egypt

 

Alexandria national Museum , Egypt



The Alexandria National Museum is one of the most prominent places of tourism in Alexandria. The origin of the museum is the palace of the great wood merchant Asaad Pasha. The museum includes hundreds of beautiful artifacts that describe the eras that Egypt passed through, such as the Pharaonic, Ptolemaic, Roman and Islamic eras, and others until the modern era in general. 1952, and all this history made it one of the best tourist places in Alexandria


The 4 best activities in the Museum of Alexandria, Egypt


 The Alexandria National Museum is one of the most important museums in Alexandria, Egypt. The museum contains more than 1,800 artifacts representing most of the eras that passed through the city, which was founded in the year 332 BC.


 It is located on Hurriya Road, and the museum building is a former palace of one of the city's wealthy timber traders, Asaad Basile, who built it in the Italian architecture style, and it is considered one of the most famous tourist places in Alexandria.


 The palace was sold in 1954 to the US Embassy for 53 thousand Egyptian pounds and bought by the Supreme Council of Egyptian Antiquities for 12 million pounds, which in turn turned it into a national museum for the city of Alexandria and was opened by the Egyptian president on September 1, 2003.




 The best activities you can do at the Alexandria National Museum


 • You can view the pharaonic artifacts, and see the history of the pieces and their stories on the signs below each piece.




 • You can see the artifacts of the Ptolemaic era in which the city of Alexandria flourished.


 • You can also see artifacts and archaeological pieces in the Roman, Byzantine and Islamic eras.





 • You can see the artistic and archaeological pieces of the family of Muhammad Ali Pasha and the end of the July 23 Revolution of 1952.




 Alexandria museum visit times and ticket prices


 From Sundays to Fridays from 9:00 am to 16:00 pm.


 Saturday closed.


 The prices of entry tickets vary from time to time and according to the tourism seasons. To find out more details about the prices of entry tickets, please visit the official website


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