Collections & Galleries
Museums
TODO — what museums in Cairo are actually worth the time.
5 placesGiza
The Grand Egyptian Museum
Two decades late, a kilometre from the pyramids, and holding the complete Tutankhamun collection for the first time.
Downtown
The Egyptian Museum, Tahrir
The old pink museum on Tahrir Square, crowded, under-labelled, and still one of the great collections on earth.
Fustat
National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation
The royal mummies in a darkened underground hall, and the only museum here that treats Egypt as continuous rather than ancient.
Bab al-Khalq
Museum of Islamic Art
One of the finest collections of Islamic art anywhere, rebuilt after a car bomb destroyed the front of it in 2014.
Coptic Cairo
The Coptic Museum
The world's largest collection of Coptic Christian art, in a building with mashrabiya ceilings, inside a Roman fortress.