Egyptian Geological Museum Travel Guide: Top Sights in Egypt, Tours &

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Egyptian Geological Museum- Travel Tips What to See, How to Plan & Tours: Historical & Cultural; Egypt; 5 Reviews

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Suggested Duration: 4 hours

The Egyptian Geological Museum in Cairo, founded in 1901, is a leading institution for geological and paleontological research in the Middle East and Africa. Initially established under the Egyptian Geological Survey, it features collections of ancient fossils, including reconstructed skeletons of prehistoric animals. Notable exhibits include the Fayoum vertebrates, discovered by Hugh Beadnell in 1898, and rare meteorites such as the Nakhla meteorite from Mars and the Kamil iron meteorite. The museum, relocated in 1982 to Maadi, remains a key center for geological study, open daily from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm, offering visitors insights into Earth's geological evolution and cosmic history.

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Reviews of Egyptian Geology Museum

Sherine Abdel Rassoul

3
Reviewed: 2024-03-23

Old run down museum, but has a great collection. Moon rock was not there when we visited. It had been moved a couple of months ago "for research".
Anjum Rahi

3
Reviewed: 2024-02-02

emphasizes the geology of Egypt, its minerals, rocks and fossils, through well organized displays it has some dianosor skeletal.
Angelina S.

5
Reviewed: 2022-08-22

I loved the museum. It's full of ancient stones, and bones, and ancient man tools, etc. Also different kinds of miretal stones. And meteorites + small piece of moon rock. The fee for Egyptians was affordable, 25 pounds.
AHMED BADAWI

5
Reviewed: 2022-05-29

The museum was originally housed in a Greco-Roman style structure in the gardens of the Ministry of Public Works in central Cairo, designed by Marcel Dourgnon, the same French architect who designed and built the Egyptian Museum (also known as the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities). The recreated fossil skeletons of paleontological finds, which featured a 3 metre tall ancestral elephant, were displayed in an exhibition hall with 4 metre high ceilings. In 1904, William Andrews, a palaeontologist from London's Natural History Museum, became the first Museum Keeper, followed by Henry Osborne in 1906.
Marwan Mohamed

3
Reviewed: 2021-01-05

It's a great museum with tons of different fossils and elements, but best of all it has a sample of Moons rocks and the ticket is extremely cheap only 5 EGP and you can enter for as long as you want and there is no extra charge for taking pictures but the bad thing about it is that it is extremely uncared for everything is dusty even the elemental samples which is such a shame because it has tons of them on the other hand it is very well organized and labeled correctly.