(Museums Tour) The Grand Egyptian Museum and Egyptian Museum Tour

cairo

Overview

Duration

1 Day

Tour Type

Private

Group Size

2-10

Run

Daily

Enjoy a day tour to the most famous museums in Egypt. visiting the Egyptian Museum which contains the largest collection of monuments from the pharaonic era. Don’t miss the opportunity to see Tutankhamun’s collection that contains 5000 objects for the first time in The Grand Egyptian Museum.

HIGHLIGHTS

The Grand Egyptian Museum and Egyptian Museum

Itinerary

Museums Tour

Our tour guide will pick you up from your hotel in either Cairo or Giza to start your tour by visiting the Grand Egyptian Museum

Grand Egyptian Museum
The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities Visit the Grand Egyptian museum, You will visit with other people and it is a trial phase opening with limited access.

You will see these sites (as stated exactly by GEM management)
-Hanging Obelisk
-Ramses II Statue
-10 Statues of Senusret I
-Grand staircase
-Ptolemaic King and queen
-Victory columns
-Royal Regalia
-Grand Atrium and Gift shop
-Commercial Boulevard

Then to move to visit The Egyptian Museum
The Egyptian Museum is the oldest museum in the world entirely dedicated to Egyptian culture, which is why there is a private guide who talks and explains the fundamental stages of its formation, from the birth of the collection to the present day.
Among the museum's unparalleled antiquities is the Narmer painting, which immortalizes the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under one king, and is among the museum's priceless artifacts. In addition to a large group of statues of the great Kings, Cheops, Chephren and Menkaure, the builders of the Pyramids of Giza.

Then drive back to your hotel.

Included/Excluded

English-speaking Egyptologist tour guide.
Private air-conditioned car.
Entrance fees to all sites as mentioned in the itinerary.
All tours as mentioned in the itinerary.
Bottled with mineral water during your tours.
All service charges and applicable taxes included.

Tipping.
Any other things not mentioned in the itinerary.

FAQs

Of course, you can take photos in most of the historical sites and museums in Egypt, but some of them have to pay extra charges for taking in a camera. historical sites, like the Valley of the Kings in Luxor and in some museums, like the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities.

There are no longer any fees for camera or video camera use. However, many sites will not allow you to take them in, and you may have to check them in at the entrance. If they do allow them they must be set to museum mode as they will not allow regular flash. This damages the artifacts. The rules do change regularly.

All visitors to Egypt are required to have both a passport and a visa unless you come from one of the visa-exempt countries or territories, which include Bahrain, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Lebanon, Macao, Malaysia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (as of May 2018). Citizens from some countries in North Africa and the Middle East can also visit Egypt visa-free under certain conditions.

from $57