Royal Jewelry Museum, Royal heritage museum in Alexandria, Egypt
The Royal Jewelry Museum sits inside a palace with eastern and western wings linked by a corridor and surrounded by gardens. The collection holds around 11,500 pieces of royal jewelry and precious artifacts displayed across multiple rooms and cases.
Zeinab Hanem Fahmy commissioned the palace in 1919, and Princess Fatima Zahra completed it in 1923. Egyptian authorities converted the building into a jewelry museum in 1986.
The collection comes from the Muhammad Ali dynasty and includes personal items worn and used over more than a century. Visitors today see gifts given to rulers, ceremonial insignia, and jewelry from daily court life.
Entry tickets cost 220 Egyptian pounds for international visitors, 110 for students, while Egyptian residents pay 20 pounds and students 5 pounds. The rooms are air-conditioned, and display cases carry labels beside the exhibits.
The display includes a gold chess set, golden binoculars set with precious stones, and a snuff box inscribed with Muhammad Ali's name. Some pieces carry personal engravings or inscriptions from previous owners.
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