Luxor Museum

Luxor Museum
Established	1975
Location	Luxor,Egypt
Type	Egyptology,history museum,archaeological museum
Founder	Ministry of Culture
Website	sca-egypt.org

Luxor Museumis anarchaeological museuminLuxor(ancientThebes),Egypt.^[1]It stands on thecorniche,overlooking the east bank of theRiver Nile.^[2]

Establishment

The Luxor Museum was inaugurated in 1975. It is a two-story building.^[2]The range of artifacts on display is far more restricted than the country's main collections in theEgyptian MuseuminCairo;this was, however, deliberate, since the museum prides itself on the quality of the pieces it has, the uncluttered way in which they are displayed, and the clear multilingual labeling used.^{[citation needed]}

The museum was conceived by theEgyptian Ministry of Culture,which hired Dr. Mahmud El Hakim, a top Egyptian architect, to create the plans in 1962.^[2]The installation of the museum art works came later and was finished between 1972 and 1975.^[2]

Collection

Among the items on display are grave goods from the tomb of the18th dynastypharaohTutankhamun(KV62) and a collection of 26New Kingdomstatues that were found buried in theLuxor statue cachein the nearbyLuxor Templein 1989. The royalmummiesof twopharaohs–Ahmose IandRamesses I– were also put on display in the Luxor Museum in March 2004, as part of the new extension to the museum, which includes a small visitor centre. A major exhibit is a reconstruction of one of the walls ofAkhenaten's temple atKarnak.One of the featured items in the collection is a calcite double statue of the crocodile godSobekand the 18th Dynasty pharaohAmenhotep III.^[2]

Kamosestela; circa 1550 BC; limestone; height: 2.3 m, width: 1.1 m, depth: 28.5 cm; from theKarnakTemple (Egypt)^[3]
Amenhotep III;circa 1390-1352 BC; quartzite; height: 2.49 m^[4]
Scribe statue ofAmenhotep, son of Hapu;circa 1390-1352 BC; granodiorite; height: 1.3 m; fromKarnak(Egypt)^[5]

References

^"Gallery of items in the Luxor Museum".Museumsyndicate.
^^a ^b ^c ^d ^e"Antiques. THE LITTLE— KNOWN TREASURES OF EGYPT'S LUXOR MUSEUM OF ANCIENT ART By Rita Reif".The New York Times.January 18, 1981.
^Campbell, Price (2018).Ancient Egypt - Pocket Museum.Thames & Hudson. p. 128.ISBN 978-0-500-51984-4.
^Fortenberry, Diane (2017).THE ART MUSEUM.Phaidon. p. 15.ISBN 978 0 7148 7502 6.
^Campbell, Price (2018).Ancient Egypt - Pocket Museum.Thames & Hudson. p. 151.ISBN 978-0-500-51984-4.

External links

Supreme Council of Antiquities; Luxor MuseumRetrieved 22 August 2013
Luxor: The return of two kings

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[1] "Gallery of items in the Luxor Museum".Museumsyndicate.

[NYT-2] "Antiques. THE LITTLE— KNOWN TREASURES OF EGYPT'S LUXOR MUSEUM OF ANCIENT ART By Rita Reif".The New York Times.January 18, 1981.

[3] Campbell, Price (2018).Ancient Egypt - Pocket Museum.Thames & Hudson. p. 128.ISBN 978-0-500-51984-4.

[4] Fortenberry, Diane (2017).THE ART MUSEUM.Phaidon. p. 15.ISBN 978 0 7148 7502 6.

[5] Campbell, Price (2018).Ancient Egypt - Pocket Museum.Thames & Hudson. p. 151.ISBN 978-0-500-51984-4.

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v t e Landmarks ofLuxor
East Bank	Luxor Temple Luxor International Airport Karnak Temple Luxor Museum Mummification Museum Winter Palace Hotel
West Bank	Valley of the Kings Valley of the Queens Medinet Habu The Ramesseum Deir al-Madinah Tombs of the Nobles Deir el-Bahri Malkata Colossi of Memnon

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