Museum · Egypt
Suez National Museum
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Museum in Suez, opened in 2014, tracing the city's history and the canals linking the Nile and Red Sea, with a Darius I canal stela.
Where it is
29.9552, 32.5669
Why go
Opened to visitors in 2014, this museum replaced an older Suez museum lost in the 1967 war. Two floors around a central hall of Greek, Roman and Islamic columns tell the history of Suez from prehistory onward, with sections on canal-building from the Canal of the Pharaohs to the modern Suez Canal, mining, shipbuilding, trade and the city's role on the Hajj route. Highlights named by the ministry include a statue of Senwosret III, one of Darius I's stelae commemorating the Nile–Red Sea canal, a reconstructed burial hall, and a modern replica of a Hatshepsut-era ship in the garden.
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