Le Caire classique4.8
Le Caire
Musée Égyptien, Citadelle, bazar Khan El Khalili et Vieux Caire
Cinq mille ans en une journée : les pharaons à Tahrir, la citadelle de Saladin, l'église suspendue et le bazar.
9 hPrivé
85 €
Le Caire et Gizeh
Musée Égyptien de la place Tahrir et NMEC
Le musée des pharaons de 1902 et la nouvelle demeure des momies royales à Fustat.
- Musée de Tahrir
- ouvert en 1902, Marcel Dourgnon ; plus de 120 000 objets
- Incontournables
- palette de Narmer, Rahotep et Nofret, statue de Khéphren, galerie d'Amarna
- NMEC
- Fustat, ouvert en 2021 ; salle des momies royales avec 20 rois et reines
- Momies
- Ramsès II, Séthi Ier, Hatchepsout, Thoutmosis III, Ahmosis
Le Musée Égyptien de la place Tahrir (1902) conserve 120 000 objets : la palette de Narmer, les statues de l'Ancien Empire, la galerie d'Amarna. Les trésors de Toutânkhamon ont rejoint le Grand Musée Égyptien et les momies royales le Musée national de la civilisation égyptienne (NMEC) à Fustat en 2021. Billets environ 550 EGP chacun ; nos journées au Caire incluent l'un ou l'autre musée avec un égyptologue.
La visite
The neoclassical building on Tahrir Square is the oldest purpose-built museum in the Middle East, and although its two most famous collections have moved, it remains the best place in the world for the art of the Old Kingdom: the seated Khafre in diorite, the wooden Sheikh el-Balad, the painted Rahotep and Nofret, the Meidum geese. The Amarna gallery upstairs shows Akhenaten, Nefertiti and their daughters.
The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization sits by the lake of Ain El Sira in Fustat, the first Islamic capital. Its main hall tells the story of Egypt through crafts and daily life; below it, the Royal Mummies Hall, designed like a tomb, holds twenty kings and queens moved here from Tahrir in the Pharaohs' Golden Parade of April 2021. Ramses II, Seti I and Hatshepsut lie in separate chambers.
Our Cairo days pair either museum with the Citadel, Coptic Cairo and Khan El Khalili. The museum comes first in the morning, when the galleries are quiet.
Conseils de nos guides
- Tahrir: the second floor is where the Amarna and the jewellery are; do not stop only on the ground floor
- NMEC: the mummies hall is dark and quiet by design; no photos inside
- Both museums are flat with lifts, good for guests with mobility needs
Meilleure période: Les matins en semaine. Les vendredis et samedis sont chargés avec les familles cairotes.
Questions
No. The Tutankhamun collection moved to the Grand Egyptian Museum at Giza. Tahrir keeps the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom and Amarna masterpieces.
In the Royal Mummies Hall of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat since April 2021. Our NMEC day includes the hall ticket.
If you want Tutankhamun and the pyramids, the Grand Egyptian Museum day. If you want the old city, mosques and churches too, the Tahrir museum day or the NMEC day.
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