Nubian Museum — Attraction in Nagaa Al Mahata

The Nubia Museum was established in 1997, and the museum is located in an archaeological area of ​​the most beautiful areas in Aswan, where it occupies a high hill next to the Nile scale. The architectural design of the museum is distinguished by the Nubian architectural style, which was inspired by the designers from the Pharaonic tombs, and the building won the prize of the most beautiful architectural building in the world in 2001. As for the internal components of the museum, it consists of three floors: Basement: It contains the main showroom, restoration workshops, workshops, antiquities stores, a reception center and an open theater. Ground floor: the main entrance, the exhibition hall, the lecture hall, the VIP room, the security and administration rooms, and the general manager’s room. First floor: It includes the cafeteria, library, museum, photographic rooms, microfilm, museum administration and services. The Nubian Museum is located on an area of ​​fifty thousand square meters, of which seven thousand square meters are the building of the museum building, and forty-three thousand square meters for the external site and the exposed display. Half of the space on which the museum building is housed is dedicated to internal museum exhibition halls, the other half to warehouses and restoration, the research department, places of administration, and public services. The Nubian Museum in Aswan is considered one of the most important Egyptian museums because it is the unique open museum of its kind. The Nubian Museum plays a vital role not only at the level of introducing the world to the heritage of this region or at the level of preserving the antiquities and displaying the appropriate presentation in them, but also at the level of supporting various research carried out by Scholars and researchers from all parts of the world about the Nuba region, through the Center for Studies and Documentation Centers located in the museum and publishing more information about "The Land of Gold" in Egypt, past, present and future. The Nubian Museum comes to immortalize in its flanks and pillars all the history and arts of Nubia through statues, sculptures, inscriptions, mummies, tools, memorial paintings, tombstones, murals, and so on through seventeen display areas in chronological order, including: the Nubia region, the Nubian environment, the origin of the Nile Valley, and the prehistoric era, The Neolithic civilization, the pyramids era, the Nubian medieval era, the Nubian kingdom of Kush, the Egyptian civilization in Nubia, the family 25, the Kingdom of Meroe, the late era, Christian Nubia, the Islamic Nubia, the irrigation area, the International Campaign to save the monuments of Nubia, and finally the Folk Heritage section . For the most famous monuments in the museum; It contains five thousand artifacts representing the stages of the development of Egyptian civilization and the Nubian heritage, and the museum's external display includes 68 unique pieces of large statues and antique paintings of various sizes. Among the most beautiful and rarest of these pieces on display is a skeleton of a 200,000-year-old man who was found in 1982 in the Idkubate...

Great museum! Well-curated, nicely-designed building with impressive artifacts and quality English translations for foreign visitors. Museum is organized chronologically, which I found effective and interesting. Best museum I visited in 6 major Egyptian cities. Moreover, the staff is incredibly kind and helpful. I suffered a severe nosebleed inside the museum; when my girlfriend ran to get more tissues from a janitor, he alerted the museum director of the urgent situation (language barrier here made things a little confusing). The director swept in, calmly and professionally, taking us to his office and giving me all the tissues, cold bottled water, and tea that I could ever need. He even (with my permission) washed my hair and face in a clean sink and insisted that we stay in his office with him and his family keeping us company until I stopped bleeding (which took about an hour). It was an incredible and unexpected act of kindness by the museum's director and curator, which I think speaks to the museum's quality and values. I highly encourage anyone in Aswan to make visiting the museum a...

We did this without a guide which was fine, each exhibit had a detailed description alongside it, more so than other places in Egypt we've visited.

It was really interesting to a different aspect to the Egyptian history, the overlap with the Nubians and the intermixing of cultures with ebb and flow driven by each cultures military/economic success/failure.

It also covers aspects of the time of Coptic Christianity and beginnings of the Islamic faiths in Egypt.

There's currently a temporary exhibit of many of the sites that had to be relocated or were investigated when the high dam was being constructed and future flooding made that the only opportunity.

There are gardens and some external exhibits to visit but it all seems a little incomplete. We wandered round for 15 mins but there's not a lot to see outside.

In hindsight, I took more pictures of the text than the exhibits; I think I may have been "exhibit" numb by that point, reading was a partial relief to just gawking.

The whole museum (indoors) will take less...