The Egyptian Museum

The Egyptian Museum is located in Tahrir Square Freedom Square, the main center of the great capital of Egypt, Cairo. It is the world's first planned museum design. The engineer was a Frenchman called Marcel Dogran. The idea of ​​building an Egyptian museum originally came from the French Egyptologist August Mariette, the first head of antiquities administration. Khedive Abbas Helmy laid the foundation stone in 1897 and opened the museum four years later in 1901. The museum contains around 120,000 original pieces from different historical periods. The museum has 2 floors. The first floor is for the major monuments, which are displayed in chronological order. The second for the group monuments. The most important are the collections of Tut Ankh Amon Yoya and Toya and the mummies of animals.