Mallawi Museum

Mallawi Museum is a museum of Egyptian antiquities in Mallawi, Minya Governorate, Egypt.

The museum was established in 1963 to house finds from local excavations and held an important collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts until it was looted in August 2013.^[1]^[2] Over 1000 pieces were stolen or destroyed in the looting but around half of those have since been recovered.^[3]

References

↑ Pictures: Looters Shatter Museum of Ancient Egyptian Treasures by A.R. Williams, National Geographic Daily News, 23 August 2013.
↑ Egypt’s Mallawi Museum ransacked by Julia Halperin in The Art Newspaper, 21 August 2013. Archived here.
↑ Warning: Looting of the Malawi National Museum in the Upper Egypt city of Minya UNESCO, 24 September 2013. Archived here.

Museums in Egypt

Egyptian National Military Museum
Abdeen Palace Museum
Agricultural Museum
Ahmed Shawki Museum
Alexandria National Museum
Alexandria Aquarium Museum
Al Minya Museum
Al-Alemein War Museum
Ashmunein open air museum
Aswan Museum
Bayt Al-Suhaymi
Beit El-Umma (House of the People)
Beni Suef Museum
Beshtak Palace
Cairo Aquarium Museum
Cairo Zoologica Museum
Carriage Museum
Child Museum
Constantine P. Cavafy museum in Alexandria
Coptic Museum
Denshway Museum
Egyptian Geological Museum
Gamal Abdel Nasser Museum
Gayer-Anderson Museum
Gezira Center for Modern Art
Graeco-Roman Museum
Imhotep Museum
Ismaïlia Museum
Karanis Site Museum
Karnak open air museum
Kasr (Qasr) El-Gawhara (Jewel Palace)
Kharga Museum
Library of Alexandria Museum
Luxor Museum
Manyal Palace
Marine Museum
Mallawi Museum
Memphis open air museum
Military Museum
Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum
Mohamed Nagy Museum
Mukhtar Museum
Mummification Museum
Museum of Egyptian Antiquities
Museum of Egyptian Railways
Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo
Museum of Islamic Ceramics
Museum of Modern Art in Egypt
National Museum
Nubian Museum
Oceanographic museum in Alexandria
Om Kalthoum Museum
Pharaonic Village
Postal Museum
Prince Amr Ibrahim Palace
Princess Fatma Al-Zahra' Palace museum
Qasr Al-Eini Museum
Ramses Wessa Wassef Art Center
Adam Henein Museum
Royal Jewelry Museum
Taha Hussein Museum
Underwater museum in Alexandria

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