Nubian Museum

Discover the magnificent site of the Nubian area, which lies between Aswan to the north and the Sudanese city of Dabbah to the south.

While the construction of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s, antiquities and villages in the Nile Valley of Nubia were became threatened by sinking under the waters of Lake Nasser. To save this important and ancient heritage, the Egyptian Government has turned to UNESCO for assistance. As a result, UNESCO planned to establish a museum in Aswan to display the unique Nubian heritage.

The museum’s outer design was designed by Mahmoud Al Hakim and opened its doors in November 1997; the Complex covers 50 thousand square meters of landscaped gardens and buildings divided into dissimilar sections.
It contains 3,000 artifacts representing different ages; Geological, Pharaonic, Roman, Coptic and Islamic.

The museum consists of two floors, where the ground floor has the museum's main gates, exhibition halls and a visitors' lounge, while the first floor has an information center, a cultural activity center and another exhibition hall.

The museum also has a beautiful garden with waterfalls, palm trees and flowers scattered around natural rocks, and a theatre for local and international musical and dance performances.