Egyptian Geological Museum
is a museum located in Zahraa Maadi. The museum was established in 1901 following the establishment of the General Authority of the Egyptian Geological Survey in 1896, which is created by Khedive Ismail. The museum is the first of its kind in the Middle East and the Arab world and Africa.
Was the first secretary
of the museum is Charles William Andrews 1904, then followed by Henry Orburn 1906, while Dr. Hassan Sadiq is the first Secretary of the Egyptian Museum. Museum celebrated the Diamond Jubilee in 1979, where commemorative postage stamp was issued on this occasion.
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Museum follows the General Authority
for Geological Survey and was designed from its inception study all types of rock and soil Egyptian lands and mineral deposits and other than his economic value on Egyptian territory. Geological Museum was established Egyptian in 1901 as one of the sections Geological Survey in a Greek-style building - within the Roman garden and the Ministry of Works and opened to the public in the first of December 1904 where the fossils included mammalian vertebrate animals and collected from the Fayoum governorate in 1898.
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With the museum
in place until 1982 when the original building was
demolished to create the Cairo subway. Quoted the museum's holdings to
its current the Prophet impact on the region Corniche
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