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Egyptian Museum
Egyptian Museum: Egyptian Museum behind view
Egyptian Museum: Egyptian Museum beside view

Photo: Matson Collection · Public domain · via Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons

Museum · Cairo, Egypt

Egyptian Museum

On the globe
Dated
Dated 1897–1902
Declared purpose
Museum of Egyptian antiquities
Today
Survives, museum
Build time
About 5 years
Region
Africa
Architect of record
Marcel Dourgnon, architect: about 37 when credited (1895, born 1858). Build time on record: about 5 years.All architects of record →
On the list as
Documented

Hidden history

Found, Not Built

A Neoclassical museum by Marcel Dourgnon, who won an international competition.

  1. A competition

    Dourgnon won an international competition.

  2. Egypt's treasures

    It held Tutankhamun's treasures.

Questions worth asking

  • Why a European-style museum?

Possible original uses

  • Museum

What the photos show

Sources

Further viewing

Episodes from My Lunch Break (Michael Kruse), the main lens for this app. They open on YouTube.

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