A compact museum on Luxor's east bank with statues of Amenhotep III, the reassembled Wall of Akhenaten and pieces from Tutankhamun's tomb.
The Luxor Museum is a compact museum of antiquities from Thebes, on Luxor's east bank. It was inaugurated in 1975. The Egyptian architect Mahmoud El-Hakim was commissioned to draw up the plans in 1962, and the installation of the collection was completed between 1972 and 1975.
It holds far fewer objects than the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, which is much of its appeal: a modest number of pieces from Theban sites, each given room to be looked at.
It is the best place to see what temples and tombs around Luxor produced once the objects were taken out of them. Much of what you see in the ground at Karnak and on the west bank is architecture; here you can see statues and fragments close up.
The Wall of Akhenaten is the unusual exhibit. It is made of small sandstone blocks called talatat that came from Karnak, where about 40,000 of them were found filling the Ninth Pylon in the late 1960s, and it has been partly reassembled in the museum.
The collection includes statues of Amenhotep III and objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun, KV62 in the Valley of the Kings.
The museum was planned in the 1960s and opened in 1975 as a place to show finds from Thebes.
The talatat wall is a good example of why a local museum matters. The blocks were once part of temple buildings erected under Akhenaten at Karnak, then reused as fill, and the museum is where a small part of that lost architecture has been put back together.
Morning, given the entry hours listed on the ministry portal. Check locally before you go.
Opening hours: The ministry portal listed 09:00 opening with last entry at 12:00 in summer and 13:00 in winter, and 13:00 in Ramadan (checked 13 August 2026). Confirm the hours locally before you go.
Opening hours and ticket prices may change. Please confirm the latest details before visiting.
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