Cairo International Airport Museums

Cairo International Airport Museum

Cairo Airport Museums There are two museums that can be found at Cairo International Airport in T2 and T3. The museums offer visitors a glimpse into various periods of Egyptian history with an educational experience showcasing different times, from ancient Egyptian life to the eras of the Romans and Greeks.

Cairo Airport Museum Terminal 2

The idea of establishing a museum in Terminal 2 at Cairo International Airport started in 2020. And that is through starting point, through visitors’ episode, on the ancient history of Egypt. 

The museum in Terminal 2 displays 304 artifacts on an area of 100 square meters, reflecting the ancient Egyptian’s interest in the other world as a place for eternal life, as well as highlighting the artistic features of ancient Egyptian, Roman- Greek, Coptic, Islamic and modern times. The museum also includes pieces highlighting Egypt’s being the cradle of heavenly religions that have gathered under its shadow in peace and harmony.

Cairo International Airport Museum was built in the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and Ministry of Civil Aviation in an area of about 100 m2. Museum display expresses luminous touches on the history of Egypt throughout its eras. 

Cairo International Airport Museum displays unique artifacts that highlight artistic and historical features of each era, starting with ancient Egyptian times, in addition to highlighting characteristics of Roman, Coptic, Islamic, and modern-era arts.

Cairo Airport Museum Terminal 3

The Cairo International Airport Museum Terminal 3 was inaugurated in 2016, in the light of the cooperation protocol between the Ministry of Antiquities and the Ministry of Civil Aviation, to serve as the initial introduction to ancient Egypt, and even the window overlooking its iconic monuments and its majestic civilization.

The museum at that time occupied an area of ​​approximately 60 square meters, and 38 objects were displayed in it. In 2020 the museum was transferred from its first location to the fourth floor in the same building, in order to display more objects, as its area occupies about 150 square meters.

The museum currently displays a group of the most prominent objects through which the visitor can experience the incomparable history of Egypt through its various, periods. 

The objects guide the visitor through the different phases of Egyptian history, starting with the pharaonic period, passing through the Greco-Roman period, and also present Coptic and Islamic art, and bring the visitor into the modern period.

Mummy of a Man

The linen bandages are wrapped in an elaborate pattern consisting of rhomboid coffers. This style emerged in the Roman Period, when the art of bandaging mummies reached its peak. 

The head of the mummy is covered with a gilded funerary mask made of cartonnage (a mixture of linen, glue, and plaster). A winged sun disk, symbol of rebirth, adorns the forehead. The eyes and eyebrows are inlaid.

Roman Period, 1st–2nd centuries A.D. Medium: Linen, cartonnage, paint, gold provenance: Faiyum, Fag al-Gamus.

Gold Dinar Coin

On the obverse of the dinar is the name of the Mamluk Sultan Baybars and his title "Qasim is the Commander of the Faithful." Below it an illustration of a lion, representing the ruler. On the reverse is written "in the name of God, there is no god but Allah, Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah." Initially, Muslims used coins minted by the Sassanids and Byzantines. The Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan coined the first dinar bearing Arabic writing in the year 77. The currency hence prevalent in Muslim empires were dinars, dirhams, and copper coins.

Mamluk (7 AH / 13A) 

Medium: gold 

Provenance: Egypt or the Levant.

Winged Isis Statue

A statue of the winged goddess Isis in the shape of a woman whose head is crowned with the Hathoric crown (the sun disk between the cow horns), on a base of uraei. In the ancient Egyptian religious belief, Isis, along with her sister Nephthys, transformed into kites while searching for the body of her deceased husband Osiris. 

It was also in this form that they brought him back to life. For this reason, Isis was revered as a protector of the dead in her winged form that can be seen here. Graeco-Roman Period (332 BC–395 AD). Medium: Bronze. Provenance: unknown.

The Terminal 3 Museum at Cairo Airport features a curated selection of 59 artifacts, offering glimpses into Egypt’s history across ancient, medieval, and modern times. Location: Terminal 3, Fourth Floor Services Available: Gift shop, Wi-Fi, Cafe, Parking, ATM