Museum · Cairo
National Military Museum
The official museum of the Egyptian Army, housed in the Haram Palace within the Cairo Citadel, where it opened in 1949.
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The story
The museum was founded in 1937 in the old Ministry of Defence building on Al-Falaki Street, then moved to a temporary building in Garden City in 1938. It opened officially in the Haram Palace in the Cairo Citadel in November 1949. Several rounds of development followed, with reopenings in 1982 and 1988 and a further upgrade with North Korea that President Hosni Mubarak inaugurated in 1993. Its halls were renovated again in 2011 and 2020, and it reopened on 21 October 2021.
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- It is the official museum of the Egyptian Army and Armed Forces.
- The museum reopened on 21 October 2021 after its halls were renovated.