Museum Management and private Museums in EGYPT

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Archaeologist at the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities- Ph.D. Candidate Heritage and museum studies, Helwan University

Abstract

In Egypt, the museums are run by the government while Lack of Financial resources for running costs and purchasing budgets threatens to derail the objectives of even the museum and mission of these institutions, so many countries have moved to Involve the private sector in the field of museums, While many private museums run by people have been established, as well as specialized museums run by government agencies, such as the Nile Museum in Aswan, run by the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, and the Agricultural Museum run by the Ministry of Agriculture. This paper aims to shed light on museums run by the Ministry of Antiquities and other museums run by government agencies as well as private museums in Egypt.

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