Museum · Egypt
Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum
A museum inside the Bibliotheca Alexandrina showing finds from the library's own building site and objects raised from Alexandria's seabed.
Where it is
31.2088, 29.9093
Why go
When the new Bibliotheca Alexandrina was under construction in 1993–95, excavators found Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine pieces on the plot, and the library created a museum to show them where they were found. Opened in October 2002, it holds roughly 1,100 objects covering Pharaonic, Graeco-Roman, Coptic and Islamic Egypt, with the emphasis on Alexandria in the Hellenistic age. A second highlight is material lifted from the sea floor of the Eastern Harbour and Abukir Bay. Labels are in Arabic, English and French. The museum is one of four inside the library complex.
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