PVT122 NMEC Museum

Historical Highlight

The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) is a large museum 490,000 square metres in the ancient city of Fustat. The museum displays a collection of 50,000 artefacts, presenting Egyptian civilization from prehistoric times to the present day.

The permanent collection is divided into two separate regions, one chronological and the other thematic. The chronological areas will be the following:
Archaic, Pharaonic, Greco-Roman, Coptic, Mediaeval, Islamic, modern and contemporary.
The thematic areas will be the following: Dawn of Civilization, The Nile, Writing, State and Society, Material Culture, Beliefs and Thinking and the Gallery of Royal Mummies. UNESCO provided technical help to the museum.

Tour Overview

This private guided tour to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization will amaze you with the unique selection of artefacts and how everything is displayed in a way that takes you into a nice dream to explore the stages of the Egyptian civilization development and all the diverse cultures Egypt experienced as well as the Royal Egyptian Mummies permanent exhibit. 

What to Expect

Our representative will pick you up from your hotel in Cairo to visit Cairo’s National Museum of Egyptian Civilization to dive into the rich past of this ancient land.
During your tour to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC), you will see one of the most important and largest antiquities museums in the world, and it is the first museum to be dedicated to the entirety of Egyptian civilization where more than 50,000 artefacts will relate the stages of the development of civilization from the earliest times to the modern era. Covering topics such as the dawn of Egyptian civilization, writing systems, and the importance of the Nile.

Walk among past rulers in the Royal Mummies Hall.; the crown jewel of the museum. featuring 22 royal mummies, including famous rulers like his majesty King Ramses II and Queen Hatshepsut, as well as their coffins.

The museum’s holdings will be displayed in a permanent major exhibition that deals with the most important achievements of Egyptian civilization. The museum also includes spaces for temporary exhibitions, as well as an exhibition on the development of modern Cairo. The museum covers service, commercial, and recreational buildings, and a research centre for the science of ancient materials and restoration. After your tour is finished, you will be transferred back to the hotel or any other preferred drop-off location in Cairo or Giza.