The Egyptian Museum

The Egyptian Museum

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It is the only building that was built to be a museum is that all museums in the world were like royal palaces or government institutions later converted into museums. A measures the nineteenth century Egyptian monuments were to be lost until the end of the reign of Mohamed Ali Viceroy of Egypt at that time who began to understand the historical value of this heritage and the recommendation Champion French archaeologist who was primarily responsible to decipher the mysteries of the Rosetta Stone, the man ordered in 1835 to found a museum to protect Egyptian antiquities by exposing properly for its historical value but unfortunately until 1857 did nothing to had raised until the arrival of August Marriette in 1858, who came to Egypt to pick up some Coptic manuscripts intending to return again to France, but what has happened, He stayed in Egypt doing some excavations at Saqqara and see neglected monuments decided to build a museum of their own on the east bank of the river Nile and call the museum Bulaque, Bulaque is a French word meaning lake Nice, was the first museum in Egypt and was no more than a small museum consists of four rooms were only to expose the unique pieces and the rest of the monuments was accumulated in the stores, but unfortunately this museum was destroyed by the floods of the Nile. At that time the best part of the pieces were lost and the Egyptian government had no choice but to carry the rest of the pieces to Abdin Palace, one of the presidential palaces now, all these events took place in the time of Khedive Ismael.

The current museum is located in the city center of Cairo was designed by the French architect Marcel Dargnon winner of an international competition, the museum was designed to Greco-Roman style and this is very clear in the two columns of the facade. If we look at the facade are two different dates, the first being 1897 is the foundation and the second is 1902 is the date of completion of the work and the opening at the time of Khedive Abbas Helmy, so we can see the first two letters of its name registered to the facade. The museum today has about 120 thousand exhibits and more than 700 thousand pieces of stock, decorate the museum's treasure of King Tut