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Egypt’s tourism and antiquities minister on Tuesday inaugurated two museums inside Cairo International Airport in observance of International Museum Day, celebrated annually on May 18.
The new museums are inside Terminals 2 and 3 and will hold artefacts to give travellers a “glimpse of Egypt’s treasures”, said an official Tourism Ministry announcement released on Facebook on Tuesday.
The artefacts were chosen to represent the Egypt s various civilisational eras including the Pharaonic, Greco-Roman, Coptic and Islamic periods.
Most of the pieces were in storage at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square, the Suez Museum and Alexandria’s Greco-Roman Museum, said Prof Moamen Othman, head of the ministry’s museums department.