Greco-Roman Museum

The idea of establishing the museum in Alexandria to 1882 to include the collections of Egyptian antiquities in the Greek and Roman eras, found in Alexandria and parts of other Romanian Greek monuments. The museum was initially a small facility consists of five rooms located in the Rashid Street (the road to freedom).
With so many Romanian Greek Antiquities discovered it became clear that this small building no longer meets the required purpose, for this was decided to establish a new museum in 1895, a museum and the current was comprised of 11 galleries. Over time, the museum was added to the other halls, the last room No. 25, which emerged during the development of the museum in 1984. A room that has the largest collection of coins of different metals since the year 650 BC. M (the country of Greece) and even the Ottoman period.
Among the most important collections of the Museum of Alexandria known as the Group or the Hall of Alexandria, which includes the heads of some statues of Alexander the Great and the statue of the god Serapis in the form of light, which dates to the reign of Hadrian, and was found in the Serapeum in Alexandria, and a bust of Serapis body parts from alabaster and another body subhuman also of wood sycamore panels of the mosaic icon depicting Alexandria in the form of a woman, as well as each of the statue of Isis and Harbo Hippocrates. Then there is the hall where a group of Egyptian antiquities statues and amulets, and coffins, as well as masks and some plaster Roman Temple of Sobek Items displayed in the museum garden, which was carried in the belly of Hurriyet Fayoum. There is room in which he was definitely carved a mating between the Egyptian art and Greek art.
Then the room, which includes a large number of paintings and funerary statues of Hall of the Ptolemaic kings and some Roman Emperors, Hall and statues of gods, which includes the goddess Aphrodite. And Hall and Hall pottery coffins and Hall and Hall Tanagra Almsarj glass, textile and some pieces Coptic different columns and capitals.