Nile Museum — Attraction in Aswan

From official site of Nile museum : Welcome to the Nile Museum just steps from our river immortal at Aswan charming city, just steps from the Old Aswan Dam. Nile Museum has a very funny story, where the start of 2004 under the name of the dam reservoir High Museum of Aswan and today was named the Nile Museum. Documenting the civilization of the Nile River from the headwaters to the Mediterranean Sea and was the first Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, 1864, if the Ministry of Irrigation of the oldest ministries in Egypt and thus the goal of this museum is to document the history of Egypt since Pharaonic era to the present. With regard to the water point sources even downstream of the Museum of the Nile funny story when I started took over as the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation in 2014 and found that the name of the museum is the dam Museum of Higher tank Aswan At the same time directed the state and endemic relations with the Nile Basin countries and documenting the culture and documenting Egypt's relations with the basin states Nile decided to change Msmha...

The sign outside said Ministry of Agricultural sth, but it's the same museum. Comparing to other more famous museums in Egypt, this one offers a lot more information on the subject of Nile water engineering and the dam. Staff was helpful and did not ask for any tips after a little bit of interaction (super rare in Egypt, where kindness has a price tag on an asking hand). The only thing I didn't like was the fish tank upstairs: There was a major leak and water was everywhere. The condition of the two tanks was DIRE...mirky dirty slimey water with no label about the species of fish. Just...

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I think we were also expecting this museum would include more historical information about the Nile River.

It should be called the Aswan Dam museum. The museum has much more information regarding modern day plans to dam the Nile for electrical generation, irrigation and other uses.

There was a small area regarding the Abu Simbel temple and the project to relocate the temples to higher ground to avoid flooding. But most of the museum is about the Aswan dams. It just wasn't as interesting as we hoped...