Museum · Luxor
Luxor Museum
An elegant museum on Luxor's Nile corniche showing a refined selection of Theban treasures, from royal statues to Tutankhamun grave goods and two royal mummies.
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The story
Luxor Museum opened in 1975 in a two-storey building overlooking the east bank of the Nile, from plans by the Egyptian architect Mahmoud el-Hakim. From the start it favoured selection over volume: fewer objects than Cairo's museum, but chosen for quality, shown with clear space and labelled in several languages. Highlights include a calcite double statue of Amenhotep III with the crocodile god Sobek, grave goods from Tutankhamun's tomb, and twenty-six New Kingdom statues found buried near Luxor Temple in 1989. In March 2004 the mummies of the kings Ahmose I and Ramesses I went on display, alongside a reconstructed wall from Akhenaten's temple at Karnak.
Good to know
- The museum opened in 1975 in a modern two-storey building on the Nile corniche.
- Its display is deliberately selective and uncluttered, favouring quality over quantity, with labels in several languages.
- It holds twenty-six New Kingdom statues discovered buried near Luxor Temple in 1989.
- The mummies of King Ahmose I and King Ramesses I have been on display here since March 2004.
Visiting tips
The museum sits on the corniche between Luxor and Karnak temples, and one to two hours is usually enough. Travel sources report a morning and an evening session, but hours and ticket prices vary by season and source, so please check before visiting.