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.
Most of the artifacts displayed at the Luxor Museum were discovered in the area of ancient Thebes (modern Luxor). there is also a newly built annex dedicated to Egypt’s Golden Age (the New Kingdom, ca. 1550-1070 BC) 
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 center.
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.
Useful Info.
HOURS OF OPERATION:
- Winter: open daily 9AM-9PM
- Summer: open daily 9AM-4PM, 5PM-10PM
- Last ticket sold 30 minutes before closing
LOCATION: Corniche el-Nil, downtown Luxor
FACILITIES:
- Labels are in Arabic and English.
- Visitors’ center, cafeteria, bookshop, library
- No audio or personal guides are provided, but a catalogue of the museum collection is available for purchase in the bookstore.
- The museum is wheelchair accessible.
- CONTACT INFO: Phone: (095) 370569
- NO PHOTOGRAPHY ALLOWED. 
