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Graeco-Roman Museum

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The museum's collection is the product of donations from wealthy Alexandrians as well as of excavations led by successive directors of the institution, both within the town and in its environs. Certain other objects have come from the Organization of Antiquities at
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Erected in 1892, it was first built in a five-room apartment, inside one small building on Rosetta Street (later Avenue Canope and now Horriya). In 1895, it was transferred to another, larger building near Gamal Abdul Nasser Street. Its first director was
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bears the large Greek inscription ‘MOYΣEION’ ("MOUSEION"). The museum consists of 27 halls and an attractive garden, which offer an excellent introduction to Egypt's Greco-Roman period.
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The museum was closed for renovations in 2005. In February 2022 the Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities,
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Chiti, Elena (28 February 2018). "Conflicting Histories of Alexandria, or Alexandrians with No Museum (1892-2016)".
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period) and from various digs undertaken at the beginning of the century in
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attended the reopening of the museum, following 18 years of renovations.
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and then Achille Adriani. The museum was inaugurated in 1895 by Khedive
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and at Benhasa. Housed within a historic building whose beautiful
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Greco-Roman Museum

archaeological museum
Alexandria
Egypt
Giuseppe Botti
Evaristo Breccia
Abbas II
Greco-Roman
Ptolemaic
Apis
black granite
sacred bull
mummies
sarcophagus
tapestries
Greco-Roman civilization
ancient Egypt
Cairo
Pharaonic
Fayoum
neoclassical
facade
pediment
Mostafa Waziri
Mostafa Madbouly
Evaristo Breccia
Mervat Seif el-Din
Floor plan
Sophilos Mosaic

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