Kom Aushim Museum — Attraction in Faiyum

The Kom Ushim Museum is located at the gateway to Karanis, a Greco-Roman town. The museum was built in 1974 on a 280 * 160 m plot of land, and the supreme council of Antiquities later enlarged it to 850 * 350 m. It recently reopened as part of the Antiquities Ministry's strategy to develop and reopen closed museums in order to promote local and international tourism. The Museum's interior.

It has two levels and displays collections from the Prehistoric through the Greco-Roman eras, as well as a Coptic and Islamic era collection. A Fayoum Mummy Portrait of a Man is the museum's crowning achievement. The labels are written in both Arabic...

The Museum is small and shows the usual range of objects from Prehistory to the Islamic period. Labels are uninformative and often do not refer to the objects in the case. I expected to see more daily life objects from Karanis. Beit Sobek, the old dig house restored and turned to a museum of the site is nice, but quite empty. The site is amazing, but there are no informative...

We pay money for what? No power inside the museum. We had to use our mobile phones for light during daytime...😂 Then we have to pay extra for the archeological site which we didn't want to go... Lot of improvements needed to eradicate the corruption...