Grand Egyptian Museum
A day with Ramesses II in the Grand Hall, Tutankhamun’s gold, and the cedar boat of Khufu.
Book your visit
Entry ticket
$49.00
Select date
Time
The time is when you may enter. You can stay after that window.
What's included
- Official ticket
- Skip the ticket office line
One ticket for the day
The Grand Hall, the stairs, twelve galleries, Tutankhamun, and Khufu’s boats. The gardens are part of the same visit.
Arrive when it suits you
You choose the window when you walk in. Once you are inside, the day is yours.
Tickets by email
Pay by card under one name. We send the tickets to that email after the payment.
The museum
What you walk through
Hanging obelisk
- Granite obelisk of Ramesses II, brought from Tanis
- Raised so the royal names on its base can be read from below
- Gardens and plaza on the way in
- The desert road, with the plateau beyond
Grand Hall
- Colossal statue of Ramesses II, eleven metres of red granite
- Victory column of his son Merneptah
- A Ptolemaic king and queen raised from the sea at Heracleion
- The king list from Saqqara
- Statues of Senusret I
Grand Stairs
- Statues of kings and queens along the ascent
- Stelae, columns, and stone sarcophagi
- Temple sculpture and figures of the gods
- The three pyramids of Giza, framed in the glass at the top
Main galleries
- Predynastic life, palettes, and the first writing
- Old Kingdom tomb statues and the age of the pyramids
- Middle Kingdom jewelry and models of daily life
- New Kingdom temples, queens, and the empire
- Gods, sacred animals, and coffins through to Roman Egypt
- Deir el-Medina, the Valley of the Kings, and Abu Qir Bay
Tutankhamun galleries
- The gold funerary mask
- Three nested coffins, one of solid gold
- The golden throne
- Chariots, beds, and jewelry
- The nested shrines and canopic shrine
Khufu’s boats
- Khufu’s first boat, cedar, 42.32 metres long
- Found in pieces beside the Great Pyramid in 1954
- Rebuilt and shown whole in its own hall
- The second boat, conserved where you can see the work
With your ticket
What you come to see
The day opens on Ramesses II in the Grand Hall, eleven metres of red granite. Upstairs, twelve galleries run from prehistoric Egypt to the Roman period. Two long rooms hold Tutankhamun’s tomb treasures together, gold mask included. Across the plaza, Khufu’s cedar boat — found in pieces beside the Great Pyramid in 1954 — stands whole again, 42.32 metres long.
Explore the roomsHours
Except Wednesday and Saturday: complex 8:30 AM–7 PM, galleries 9 AM–6 PM, last entry 5 PM. Wednesday and Saturday: complex until 10 PM, galleries until 9 PM, last entry 8 PM. Your entry window is only when you may walk in.
Getting here
El Remayah Square, on the Cairo–Alexandria Desert Road. By car, head toward the square and enter at Gate 2.
Questions
Choose a day to come
Pick when you would like to arrive. The rest of the day is yours once you are inside.