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| Established | 1975 |
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| Location | Luxor,Egypt |
| Type | Egyptology,history museum,archaeological museum |
| Founder | Ministry of Culture |
| Website | sca-egypt.org |
Luxor Museum is anarchaeological museum inLuxor (ancientThebes),Egypt.[1] It stands on thecorniche, overlooking the east bank of theRiver Nile.[2]
The Luxor Museum was inaugurated in 1975. It is a two-story building.[2] The range of artifacts on display is far more restricted than the country's main collections in theEgyptian Museum inCairo; this was, however, deliberate, since the museum prides itself on the quality of the pieces it has, the uncluttered way in which they are displayed, and the clear multilingual labeling used.[citation needed]
The museum was conceived by theEgyptian Ministry of Culture, which hired Dr. Mahmud El Hakim, a top Egyptian architect, to create the plans in 1962.[2] The installation of the museum art works came later and was finished between 1972 and 1975.[2]
Among the items on display are grave goods from the tomb of the18th dynasty pharaohTutankhamun (KV62) and a collection of 26New Kingdom statues that were found buried in theLuxor statue cache in the nearbyLuxor Temple in 1989. The royalmummies of twopharaohs –Ahmose I andRamesses I – were also put on display in the Luxor Museum in March 2004, as part of the new extension to the museum, which includes a small visitor centre. A major exhibit is a reconstruction of one of the walls ofAkhenaten's temple atKarnak. One of the featured items in the collection is a calcite double statue of the crocodile godSobek and the 18th Dynasty pharaohAmenhotep III.[2]
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