Sharm El Sheikh Museum

Sharm El Sheikh Museum added an advantage to the city, especially for non-Egyptian tourists, who mostly travel to enjoy the beach only and do not have time to visit and learn about the ancient Egyptian heritage, as it saved the efforts of time, distance, and cost, and made it possible to learn about the Egyptian heritage and pharaonic statues, so it became an attractive source of tourism in Sharm El-Sheikh in a greater way than before.

An overview of Sharm El-Sheikh Museum

The construction of the museum was completed in 2017 AD, it is located on the road to Sharm El-Sheikh International Airport. Sharm El-Sheikh museum was built on a huge area of 192,000 square meters, at a cost of 812 million Egyptian pounds.

Sharm El-Sheikh Museum Collections

The museum includes 12 exhibition halls

• Hall of daily life and wildlife: The royal hall, royal life, deities, humans and animals, sun boats, and the underworld.
• Civilizations Hall: Greco-Roman, Byzantine, Royal Chamber, Silk Road, Desert Civilization, and Tutankhamun.

The museum includes 5,200 distinctive artifacts carefully selected from various museum stores.

The museum is not limited to museum exhibitions only, but also provides an entertainment area that includes restaurants, cafes, bazaars, an area for traditional crafts, and venues for celebrations and events.

Sharm El-Sheikh museum statues

There is a statue of King “Ramses II” in the main hall, which is followed by the stairs that lead to the exhibition halls and the royal hall, which includes many distinguished statues. There is also the Hall of Hathor, which includes columns with statues of the goddess Hathor, “the golden daughter of King Ra” or “Lady of Turquoise”. The museum also includes a statue of the head of Queen Hatshepsut, next to a statue of the head of her father, King “Thutmose I”, and statues of Thay and Naya, the couple, which express the extent of the interdependence of the Egyptian family in the ancient Pharaonic civilization and the extent of the wife’s support for her husband, as “Naya” puts her right hand on the shoulder of her husband, “Thai”, one of the nobles of the modern era, in a comfortable position, expressing the extent of the bond between them. In addition to the statue of “Ukhhotep” or as he was known as (Women’s advocate), the ruler of El Quseyya, which is one of the regions of Asyut, when his tomb was discovered, drawings and inscriptions for women only were found, he married many women to give birth to a male to inherit the throne after him, but he fathered only girls, therefore he appointed only women in all the jobs that used to occupy his palace, as a prelude to the general public that whoever will inherit power after him is one of his daughters, and to prove that women are capable of performing any job a man can perform. There is also a statue of King Horemheb, commander of the army during the reign of Akhenaten, and his wife, Queen Mut Nejmet, and 10 artifacts belonging to King Tutankhamun before they were displayed in the Grand Egyptian Museum.

The museum also includes distinctive artifacts such as the “water clock”, that was used in the era of the ancient Egyptians to determine the time, recent discoveries by Dr. Mustafa Waziri, and a model of a Pharaonic tomb. The museum introduces the Sinai heritage due to the location of the museum in Sharm El-Sheikh, in the South Sinai Governorate.