Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst

Königsplatz & Lenbachhaus are only a part of the art district known as Kunstareal. Very close to Königsplatz, on its east side this time, just across Arcisstrasse, starts another unique ensemble of museums. First in line the Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, the State Museum of Egyptian Art.

The 1800 m² underground halls of the museum display 5000 years of Egyptian history in a unique collection of statues, sculptures, papyri, stone tablets with hieroglyphics, glassware, jewelry, amulets but also mummies, textiles, and household goods.

The visitors can track the overall development of Egyptian art history, from the Old to the Middle & the New Kingdom through to the Greco-Roman period with the additional help of modern technology & interactive touchscreens that provide background information on religion, gods or funeral rites of each area of the realm.

Among the most distinguished exhibits is the famous duplex statue portraying the pharaoh Nyuserre Ini as young and as an elder man, the statues of the pharaohs Amenemhat III, Ramses II, Thutmosis III, and Akhenaten, the sphinx of Sesostris III and Amenhotep II, the sarcophagus lid of Queen Sitdjehuti and the kneeling figure of Senenmut.

The Hellenistic-roman period is represented by masterpieces such as the bust of a Seleucid ruler and the grand Egyptian statue of Antinous. The Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst is the only museum with its building in the world that is exclusively dedicated to ancient Egyptian exhibits.