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The Graeco-Roman Museum is an archaeological museum located in Alexandria, Egypt.




History


Erected in 1892, it was first built in a five-room apartment, inside one small building on Rosetta Street (later Avenue Canope and now Horriya). In 1895, it was transferred to another, larger building near Gamal Abdul Nasser Street. Its first director was Giuseppe Botti. From 1904 to 1932 he was followed by Evaristo Breccia and then Achille Adriani. The museum was inaugurated in 1895 by Khedive Abbas II. The museum edited the Bulletin of the Alexandria Archaeological Society.
The museum contains several pieces dating from the Greco-Roman (Ptolemaic) era in the 3rd century BC, such as a sculpture of Apis in black granite, the sacred bull of the Egyptians, mummies, sarcophagus, tapestries, and other objects offering a view of Greco-Roman civilization in contact with ancient Egypt.
The museum's collection is the product of donations from wealthy Alexandrians as well as of excavations led by successive directors of the institution, both within the town and in its environs. Certain other objects have come from the Organization of Antiquities at Cairo (particularly those of the Pharaonic period) and from various digs undertaken at the beginning of the century in Fayoum and at Benhasa. Housed within a historic building whose beautiful neoclassical facade of six columns and pediment bears the large Greek inscription ‘MOYΣEION’ ("MOUSEION"). The museum consists of 27 halls and an attractive garden, which offer an excellent introduction to Egypt's Greco-Roman period.
The museum was closed for renovations in 2005. In February 2022 the Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mostafa Waziri, said that the museum would be opened within a few months. On 11 October 2023, Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly attended the reopening of the museum, following 18 years of renovations.




Directors of the Greco-Roman Museum


1892–1903, Giuseppe Botti
1904–1932, Evaristo Breccia
Achille Adriani
2004–2010, Mervat Seif el-Din




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See also


Museums in Alexandria




References






External links


Supreme Council of Antiquities Museums: The Graeco-Roman Museum

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Greco-Roman_Museum,_Alexandria

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• Kekaisaran Romawi
• Politarkh
• Bahasa-bahasa di Kekaisaran Romawi
• Thessaloniki
• Masjidilaqsa
• Romawi Kuno
• Sinagoge Dura-Europos
• Seres (mitologi)
• Herofilos
• Perpustakaan Aleksandria
• Graeco-Roman Museum
• Classical mythology
• Magic in the Greco-Roman world
• Roman Egypt
• Alexandria
• University of Trier
• Alexandria Governorate
• Mervat Seif el-Din
• Alexandria University
• Ain Shams University