Sharm El-Sheikh Museum
๐ Location: Sharm El-Sheikh, South Sinai ย ยท ย ๐บ Focus: Egyptian civilization across the eras ย ยท ย ๐๏ธ Tickets: 200 EGP foreign adults
After a fourteen-year wait โ the project was approved in 2006 โ the Sharm El-Sheikh Museum finally opened to the public in late 2020, the third antiquities museum on a major Red Sea resort coast (after Hurghada and the National Museum of Suez). It is the largest collection of antiquities ever displayed in Sinai and is squarely aimed at the millions of resort holiday-makers who pass through Sharm each year.
The collection of around 5,000 artefacts is housed in two main halls. The Grand Hall focuses on Egyptian achievements in science, mathematics, crafts, family life and the love for animals, with a celebrated set of animal mummies โ cats, ibis, crocodiles, even a baboon โ together with the scientific instruments that explain their preservation. The Hall of Civilization centres on the intact burial set of the 21st-Dynasty priestess Isetemheb โ her coffin, canopic chest, papyri, cosmetics and perfume jars โ alongside a finely-carved head of Hatshepsut and figurines tracing Egyptian fashion and Sinai's own cultural heritage.
Highlights
- Coffin and burial set of priestess Isetemheb
- Sculpted head of Hatshepsut
- Sinai-themed gallery: bedouin culture, Sinai mining, biblical sites
- Wide range of animal mummies
- Open evenings until 11 pm
Visiting
- Opening hours: 10 am โ 1 pm and 5 pm โ 11 pm
- Tickets: 200 EGP foreign adults, 100 EGP students; Egyptians 20 / 10 EGP
- Best time: evening โ Sharm is far more pleasant after sunset
- Nearby: Naama Bay, Ras Mohammed National Park, Saint Catherine's Monastery (2 hrs)