Outside the Cairo Museum

The museum is open from 9-5, and admission is £E12. It isn't air-conditioned, so remember to take some water with you. Photography permits are available, but make sure that your flash is disabled otherwise you will be surrounded by guards, and your film might be confiscated. The mummy room is the only airconditioned part of the museum, and a separate ticket is needed to see the mummies.

The Tutankhamen mask is now very difficult to photograph, being kept in a fairly dark room. This photograph was from my last visit in 1997, when the room was much brighter. If you'd like to see a much bigger picture, click on the mask.
The delightful figures, staring at each other for nearly 4000 years are the alabaster canopic jars, which contained small sarcophagi containing the kings internal organs.

For more information about the Cairo Museum, try these links.
An Australian site, but excellent despite that!

The official Egyptian tourism site