السبت، 16 أغسطس 2014

Alexandria National Museum

Alexandria National Museum is a museum in the city of Alexandria, Egypt. 
The museum contains more than 1,800 artifacts representing most of the times that have passed over the city, which was founded in the year 332 BC. The address of 110 Liberty Road (formerly Fouad Street).
Palace 
The museum building is a former palace of a wealthy timber merchants in the city, which is "the happiest Basile," which he created in the style of Italian architecture. Sale of the palace in 1954 to the American Embassy for $ 53 thousand Egyptian pounds, and was bought by the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt in the amount of 12 million Egyptian pounds, which is to turn around the national museum of the city. The Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak inaugurated on September 1, 2003. [1] 
Exhibits 

The museum displays about 1800 artifacts ranging from the Pharaonic era and the Ptolemaic era, which flourished in Alexandria then ages Romanian, Byzantine and Islamic right up to the modern era began the era of the family of Muhammad Ali Pasha, revolution and the end of July 23 1952.




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