In the heart of the Giza Zoo in Cairo is theAnimal Museum, a very distinctive facility that contains animal mummies, some of which were tunnels in the park more than a hundred years ago.

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The museum, which consists of 3 floors, displays mummies of hundreds of mammals, reptiles, birds and insects. The museum is proud to be the only one in the Middle East and Africa that displays mummies of rare and even extinct animals, such as a white deer that was present in Egypt 100 years ago, an Egyptian tiger living in the Sinai, and other birds.

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The structures of rare and extinct animals in the Animal Museum, Giza Zoo

 

In the heart of the Giza Zoo in Cairo is the Animal Museum, a very distinctive facility that contains animal mummies, some of which were tunnels in the park more than a hundred years ago.

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The museum, which consists of 3 floors, displays mummies of hundreds of mammals, reptiles, birds and insects. The museum is proud to be the only one in the Middle East and Africa that displays mummies of rare and even extinct animals, such as a white deer that was present in Egypt 100 years ago, an Egyptian tiger living in the Sinai, and other birds.

Such rare animals are found on the second floor of the museum building, in which the main hall on the first floor contains mummified bone remnants of whales, giraffes, and monkeys, all of whom lived, before their death, in the historic zoo in Giza.

“There are pieces that are not found in other museums, almost not in Africa, the Arab region, or the Middle East, how many of these mummies are. The advantage here is that there are mummies of animals that have died since 1910, and they were present in the park, which It is the oldest zoo in the entire region and the second zoo in the world.

The museum displays a wide range of animals, all of them preserved as they are through a very accurate embalming process.

The Animal Museum was established in 1906 and has been closed 3 times in its history, the first in 1962, then in 1988 and 1998.

Susan Kamal, director of the animal museum at the zoo, explained that the museum is seeking to attract attention and attract visitors, while increasing efforts being made recently.

She added that cameras and audio system will be installed and the museum guide will be reprinted with information on each display showcase.

The Giza Zoo was once the jewel of the crown of African zoos, but has had problems in recent years.

The garden was commissioned by Khedive Ismail, and it was opened in 1891, to display imported flowers and exotic plants, and to become a huge exhibition for African wildlife.

Animal Museum components»

Dr. said Susan Kamal, director of the museum’s museum department, said that the animal museum, after being closed for 18 years, was developed to include 3 floors instead of one floor that contained all animals and structures, noting that the first floor contains 10 lukewarm, the first showcase includes the African environment and all animals That you live in, and the second case includes the aquatic environment in which reptiles, birds, and animals that live on the beaches live, then the third case which includes animals and reptiles that live in the desert environment such as foxes and fens, and the fourth case includes animals that live in the marine environment Like the Seven Seas and the Swan, then the Amazon environment showcase includes the animals that live in Brazil, and there is a case for monkeys and their evolution since they were discovered, and there is a case for the chimpanzee jungle man, then the rodents and squirrel showcase, then the meat eaters like lions, leopards and tank, and the museum mediates the skeletons .

Susan emphasized that most of the animals and structures in the museum are animals that were present in the garden and died because of the old age if the disease was embalmed, and there are also Fontat from the outside and were confiscated or gifts such as bean geese that King Farouk brought in 1943, and the birds of prey from falcons, eagles and mercy and birds that She lives on the beaches, pigeons, doves, ravines, Abu Qarn and the owl. There are also 3 lukewarm birds that contain beautiful and rare species.

As for the second floor, the Egyptian environmental animal stuff, reptiles, the sea floor, and a cave containing skeletons for scientific comparison between humans, chimpanzees, jungle and monkeys, a display of ancient collections and a group of butterflies and insects that are first exposed to the museum, in addition to the third floor that includes a bird display according to the scientific division of different ranks.

There is also a basement at the bottom of the museum to store the mummies that were not displayed in the museum. In Egypt only, which numbered 536 mammals and rodents and 6254 birds and is referred to when defining any of the mammals, birds and reptiles, it serves thus students in zoology in all areas.