Museum · Egypt
Hurghada Museum
متحف الغردقة
The Red Sea Governorate’s first antiquities museum, with about 2,000 objects tracing Egyptian history through the theme of beauty.
Where it is
27.1606, 33.8214
Why go
According to the ministry, this is the first antiquities museum in the Red Sea Governorate. The ministry and the governorate created it together, and private-sector money paid for the building. About 2,000 objects run from pharaonic and Graeco-Roman pieces through Jewish, Christian and Islamic material to the modern period. The displays are arranged around how Egyptians across the ages understood beauty and adornment.
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