Luxor Museum

Luxor - East Bank of the River

The Luxor Museum - for those who like museums and want to find large collections like the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, which is both stunning and exhausting, Luxor is a place worth seeing. The museum opened in 1975 and contains a modest collection of works of the highest quality, dating from the Predynastic period right up to the Islamic era. The modern building is very spacious, with plenty of room to move around freely and admire the beautifully displayed objects and sculptures in a calm, low-lit setting. An ideal place to spend a hot morning in Luxor.
A huge head of Amenhotep III, from his mortuary temple at Thebes, 18th dynasty. Head of the cow goddess, from the tomb of Tutankhamun, Thebes, 18th dynasty.
Amenhotep III with Sobek, from Dahamsha, 18th dynasty.
Statue of Akhenaten, from Karnak, 18th dynasty.
Amenhotep, son of Hapu, from Thebes, 18th dynasty.
Statue of Ramesses III, from Karnak, 20th dynasty.
Statue of the goddess Iunyt, from the temple at Luxor, 18th dynasty.
Statue of Amenhotep III, from the temple at Luxor, 18th dynasty.
Horemheb, from the temple at Luxor, 19th dynasty.
The museum is built on two levels with a ramp leading from the ground floor to the upper floor, and contains exhibits from the whole Theban area. Many free-standing sculptures depict kings, queens and high-ranking officials who left their images in the temples of Thebes.

Tutankhamun is of course well represented by some objects from his tomb in the Valley of the Kings, which are not currently on display in the Museum in Cairo. Among them is the famous majestic head of the cow goddess, of resin and gilded wood, which is one of the first items the visitor sees on entering the museum. There are funerary stelae, tables, papyri, funerary furniture and many small statuettes. In the glass case in the centre of the upper floor there are smaller objects such as jewellery, funerary and ritual implements and artefacts from everyday life.