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About
The museum explains how and why ancient Egyptians preserved the dead, through the objects and remains of the embalming process.
Opened in 1997 on the Corniche in Luxor, the Mummification Museum is dedicated to the ancient Egyptian art of embalming. Its displays present the tools, materials and stages of mummification, canopic jars, amulets and coffins, the well-preserved mummy of the 21st-dynasty priest Maserharti, and mummified animals including cats, crocodiles, fish and rams, explaining the religious beliefs behind the preservation of the body.
Why this museum matters
Exhibo editorial
Down a flight of steps from the Luxor Corniche, below street level, as if the museum were itself a burial. It opened in 1997 to explain one thing — how the Egyptians made a body last for eternity — and does it with an almost clinical clarity: the tools, the resins, the canopic jars, the linen, and the mummy of Maserharti, a priest of the 21st dynasty. Then the animals: cats, crocodiles, rams, the creatures Egyptians mummified by the thousand as offerings. It is small and it takes forty minutes. But after the Valley of the Kings, this is where the question you were too polite to ask gets answered.
Visit
Hours, tickets, and directions for Mummification Museum.
Address
Corniche El Nil, Luxor, Egypt
Opening hours
- Monday
- 09:00 – 14:00
- Tuesday
- 09:00 – 14:00
- Wednesday
- 09:00 – 14:00
- Thursday
- 09:00 – 14:00
- Friday
- 09:00 – 14:00
- Saturday
- 09:00 – 14:00
- Sunday
- 09:00 – 14:00
Second evening session 17:00–20:00.