The Nubian Museum in Aswan in Egypt is a museum established by UNESCO in Egypt to display the antiquities of the ancient Nubian civilization, and also includes information about the history of Nubia from prehistoric times until the present time, with a review of the most important Nubian customs and traditions, and the ancient Nubian language.
History.
The museum was opened in 1997, after it was built by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) following a campaign it carried out between 1960 and 1980 to save Egyptian antiquities, in preparation for the construction of the Aswan High Dam.
Museum components.
The Nubia Museum consists of three floors:
• The basement contains the main exhibition hall, restoration laboratories, workshops, antiquities stores, a reception center, and an outdoor theatre.
• The ground floor contains the main entrance, an exhibition hall, a lecture hall, a hall for VIPs, security and administration rooms, and a room for the director general of museums.
• The first floor includes the cafeteria, library, museum, photography and microfilm rooms, museum administration and services.
Design.
The design of the museum is inspired by the Pharaonic tombs, which were designed by the Egyptian engineer Mahmoud Al-Hakim. The design was in harmony with the surrounding Nubian environment, including the rocks, hills, and nature of the bright and hot sun of the city of Aswan.
Museum collections.
A museum park containing large artifacts from different eras. Various collectibles starting from prehistoric times with explanatory cards in Arabic and English displaying the Nubian civilization side by side with the Egyptian civilization. The importance of Nubia with its numerous quarries, the most important of which are diorite quarries and a source of various precious stones. The first group is distinguished by burial methods, pottery... The third group includes, through the Old and Middle Kingdom, small human and animal statues made of burnt clay. Idealism in the art of sculpture is also evident through the 25th Dynasty along with creativity in various other arts and mutates into Bilal.
The museum contains five thousand artifacts representing the stages of development of Egyptian civilization and Nubian heritage. The museum’s external display includes 68 unique pieces of large statues and archaeological paintings of various sizes. One of the most beautiful and rarest of these displayed pieces is the skeleton of a human being, 200,000 years old, which was found in 1982 in the area. Edcupate in Aswan.
Among the most important artifacts in the museum are the statue of King Ramesses II, the shrine of the Palace of Ibrim, a model of the Temple of Philae, a stone stela of Amenhotep, the shrine of a baboon and a scorpion, supplies and ornaments for horses, tombstones, a statue of Ba “the Spirit,” a statue of Amerdis, a stone stela of Tanut Amun, a model of an Islamic cemetery. , Saqiya and Shaduf, a skeleton from Wadi al-Kubaniya, a model of a Nubian burial from the first group, a statue of King Khafre.