Marine Museum

The Museum is located inside the wall of Qaitbay Citadel, Al-Anfoushi district, Alexandria. It was created in 1930. The museum contains 3 galleries each of them contains a large number of dioramas that represent the different aquatic life environments of the Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea, lakes, the Nile, and a group of rare migratory and endemic water birds. It also contains a large collection of fossils, a whale skeleton and some marine navigation equipment. The museum has many types of fish and marine creatures of strange and wonderful shapes, whose original habitat and the environmental conditions in which they live, where there is a large group of fish of the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, as well as fresh water, as well as some fish that live outside the territorial waters and some of the paintings from the book description of Egypt by scholars of the French campaign.

As for the museum’s working hours, they are determined according to the seasons of the year. In winter, visitors are received from nine in the morning until six in the evening, while in the summer the reception period extends until twelve midnight in order to give the opportunity to the largest number of visitors to enjoy the museum. The museum does not close its doors at any time of the year for the purpose of serving citizens, even on official holidays and various holidays.

In appreciation of some efforts made by some individuals in the country, as well as to encourage students of scientific research, there are some groups that are excluded from paying the value of the ticket, such as veterans and students of scientific research, as well as state orphanages and special care, as well as a 50% reduction for private trips to schools in order to encourage students to visit tourist places.