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The Antiquities Museum
This museum was the gift of the Ministry of Culture to the new Bibliotheca Alexandrina. It houses some 1100 pieces and the immense statue of Ptolemy salvaged from the sea near the site of the ancient lighthouse displayed at the entrance to the Library Complex from Port Said Street completes the collection. The museum's pieces are organized approximately chronologically from the time of Pharaohs (including a special room for mummies) to the Ptolemies, to the Roman period, to Coptic Egypt, to Islamic Egypt until the period of Napoleon's expedition to Egypt.
Science Museum:
The Science Museum is housed in the reversed pyramid underneath the Planetarium. It has a glazed surface that forms the structure into which the Planetarium is lowered so that it appears to “float”. An adjacent area called the “Planetarium Gallery” extends the Science Museum exhibitions. The exhibition is a contribution from the French Ministry of Culture and unfolds the history of science as it developed in Alexandria to the present day.
Manuscript Museum:
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is committed to help institutions catalogue and preserve their manuscripts for posterity, as part of the national goal for the preservation of heritage. There are other libraries in Alexandria affiliated to various institutions and religious organizations, including the Mosque of Sidi Mursi Aboul Abbass, and the Library of Al Azhar in Alexandria, among others, whose collections are being catalogued and indexed by Bibliotheca Alexandrina staff.
Shadi Abdel Salam Museum:
Shadi Abdel-Salam, 1930-1986, was a great artist and film director, who had a distinguished style and his own school of thought. The characters who appeared in Shadi Abdel-Salam's works are considered among the artistic classics, most of whom are real characters, inspired from the past. Eternity was one of his main concerns: the eternity of history and the eternity of artistic works. He was concerned about identifying the essence of Egypt through his works and historical studies. He was an artist in the full sense of the word, and a perfectionist.