Nubian Museum
The Nubian Museum (officially the International Museum of Nubia) is an archaeological museum located in
Building
The Nubian Museum covers an area of 50,000 square meters, 7,000 of which are devoted to the building, while the rest are devoted to gardens and other public spaces.[1] 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 Nubian culture and civilization.
Contents
Three thousand pieces of Egyptian
Landscape
The Museum is built on a steep cliff, which enables it to embody a full scale design for the
to Egypt. The edifice is surrounded by a Natural Botanical Garden, which contains a large variety of Egyptian flora.Administration
Since the museum opening, the administration has kept upgrading their caretakers. The Head Director of Nubia Museum since opening has been Dr.Ossama A.W Abd El Maguid (known as "Ossama Hassoun"). He is an
See also
References
- ^ a b Egy.com, The Nubian Museum Archived 2009-10-04 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 22 June 2010
- ^ "Nubian Museum | Aga Khan Development Network". www.akdn.org. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2018-02-24.
Bibliography
- 1982: Nubia Museum, Architectural and Exhibition Program, EAO-UNESCO, Unpublished report.
- 1997: Gaballa, Ali Gaballa, Nubia Museum, (Cairo: Ministry of Culture, The Higher Council of Antiquities, Museum Sector, Save Nubia Fund).
- 1998: Kaper, Olaf E. The New Nubia Museum of Aswan (http://www.assemblage.group.shef.ac.uk/4/4nubia.html.
- 2005: Abdel Wareth Abdel Meguid, O. “The Nubia Museum and Community”, Museum International, (Paris: UNESCO, May,), 225–226.
- 2000: Marino Giuseppe, De Simone, Costanza, Nubia Submerged: Through their Eyes with their Own Words. Cairo: Agenzia Italiana. (in cooperazione con Giuseppe Marino) (90 pp.).
- 2009: De Simone, Costanza, “The Documentation Center on Nubia at the Nubia Museum of Aswan”. Egyptian and Egyptological Documents, Archives (Università di Milano. Pontetremoli, Milano), 173–178.
- 2015: De Simone, Costanza, Nubia and Nubians: The ‘Museumization’ of a Culture. Saarbrücken, Germania: Lambert Academic Publishing (305 pp.).