The International Museum of Nubia / The Nubian Museum
is located in Aswan on an area of 50,000 square meters, 7000 of which are
excluded to building, while the rest designed to be the yard of the museum The
building has three floors for displaying and housing, in addition to a library
and information center. The largest part of the museum is occupied by the
monumental pieces, reflecting phases of the development of the Nubian culture
and civilization.
Three thousand pieces of antiquities, representing various
ages; Geological, Pharaonic, Roman, Coptic and Islamic, were registered. The
open-door exhibition includes 90 rare monumental pieces, while the internal
halls contain 50 invaluable pieces dating back to the pr-history times, 503
pieces belong to Pharaonic time, 52 of Coptic era, 103 of Islamic age, 140 of
Nubian time, in addition to 360 pieces having the tang of Aswan.
The museum was completed for an estimated
construction cost of LE 75 million (approximately $22 million at the time), and
was inaugurated on November 23, 1997.