Alexandria National Museum
- Alexandria National Museum
The Alexandria National Museum (ANM) in Egypt was inagurated the 31st of December, 2003 by Hosni Mubarak and it´s located in a restored italian style palace in Tariq Al-Horreya Street (former Rue Fouad), near the center of the city.. It contains about 1.800 artifacts that narrate the story of Alexandria and Egypt. Most of these pieces came from another egyptian museums.
*1st Floor: Pharaonic time. Mummies are shown in a special underground chamber (basement)
*2nd Floor: Graeco-roman time. Including archeological underwater excavations in Alexandria.
*3rd Floor: Coptic, Islamic and Modern eras.
The museum is housed in the old Al-Saad Bassili Pasha Palace, who was one of the wealthiest wood merchants in Alexandria. Construction on the site was first undertaken in 1926.
See also
* Museums in Alexandria
Links
* Egyptian Museums [http://www.egyptianmuseums.net/html/alexandria_national_museum__an.html]
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