Luxor Museum is located in the Egyptian city of Luxor (ancient Thebes).
It stands on the corniche, overlooking the west bank of the River Nile, in the
central part of the city.
Inaugurated in 1975, the museum is housed in a small,
purpose-built building. The range of artifacts on display is far more
restricted than the country's main collections in the Museum of Antiquities in Cairo;
this was, however, deliberate, since the museum prides itself on the quality of
the pieces it has, the uncluttered way in which they are displayed, and the
clear multilingual labeling used.
Among the most striking items on show are grave goods from
the tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62) and a collection of 26 exceptionally well
preserved New Kingdom statues that were found buried in a cache in nearby Luxor
Temple in 1989. The royal mummies of two pharaohs - Ahmose I and Ramesses I -
were also put on display in the Luxor Museum in March 2004, as part of the new
extension to the museum, which includes a small visitor centre. A major exhibit
is a reconstruction of one of the walls of Akhenaten's temple at Karnak. One of
the featured items in the collection is a calcite double statue of the
crocodile god Sobek and the 18th Dynasty pharaoh Amenhotep III.