Incredible Excursion to two of Cairo's Museums from Hurghada

From anywhere in Hurghada, our representative will be waiting for you to take you in a private air-conditioned car to Hurghada airport for your flight to Cairo, where you will be accompanied by our expert guide during this breathtaking excursion.

We will start our day with an unforgettable visit to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, the idea for the museum began when the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), at the request of the Egyptian government, announced an international campaign to create the Nubia Museum in Aswan and the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo in 1982. The museum was designed by an Egyptian architect who won an international architectural competition, and the first stone was set in the center of Fustat, Africa's first and oldest Islamic metropolis, in 2002. In 2017, in the presence of former UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova, a temporary exhibition hall on Egyptian craftsmanship through different eras was inaugurated, reflecting four crafts: pottery, woodwork, textiles, and jewelry. All preparations for the other rooms of the museum were completed. The major display hall was graciously launched by His Excellency the President of the Republic, who also received 22 royal mummies in a grand procession from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir in 2021. In 2022, a room dedicated to Egyptian textiles was also unveiled.

We then continued our excursion with a visit to the Egyptian Museum, one of the largest and most famous museums in the world, situated on the north side of Tahrir Square in the center of Cairo, the capital of Egypt. It was then moved with its contents to the second exhibition hall of the Citadel of Salah al-Din until the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, who worked at the Louvre Museum, considered establishing a museum in Boulaq, on the banks of the Nile, to display a collection of antiquities. Unlike its predecessors, the Egyptian Museum has more than 180 exhibits, making it one of the earliest museums in the world to be opened to the public. The archaeological treasures discovered in the graves of the Middle Dynasty kings and royal attendants at Dahshur in 1894 are the most significant of the museum's more than 180,000 pieces.

We will ultimately drop you off at your Luxor hotel so you can catch your flight there.