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The
Egyptian
Geological
Museum
is
a
museum
located
in
Zahraa
El
Maadi.
The
museum
was
established
in
1901,
following
the
establishment
of
the
General
Authority
for
the
Egyptian
Geological
Survey
in
1896,
which
Khedive
Ismail
ordered.
The
museum
is
the
first
of
its
kind
in
the
Middle
East,
the
Arab
world
and
Africa.
The
first
curator
of
the
museum
was
Charles
William
Andrews
1904,
then
Henry
Orborn
followed
1906,
while
Dr.
Hassan
Sadiq
was
the
first
Egyptian
curator
of
the
museum.
The
museum
celebrated
the
Diamond
Jubilee
in
1979,
when
a
commemorative
postage
stamp
was
issued
on
the
occasion.
The
museum
is
affiliated
with
the
General
Authority
of
Geological
Survey,
whose
purpose
was
to
study
all
kinds
of
rocks
and
soils
in
Egyptian
soil,
mineral
deposits,
and
others
of
economic
value
in
Egyptian
lands.
The
Egyptian
Geological
Museum
was
established
in
1901
as
one
of
the
geological
survey
sections
in
a
building
in
the
Greek-Roman
style
within
the
garden
of
the
Ministry
of
Works
and
opened
to
the
public
on
the
first
of
December
1904,
where
it
included
fossils
of
vertebrates
and
mammals
collected
from
Fayoum
Governorate
in
1898.
The
museum
remained
in
place
until
1982,
when
the
original
building
was
demolished
to
create
the
Cairo
Underground.
The
museum's
holdings
were
transferred
to
its
current
location,
Athar
Al-Nabi
area
on
the
Nile
Corniche.
Museum's
collectibles
-
Collections
are
distributed
in
the
museum's
exhibition
halls,
and
displayed
in
modern
scientific
methods
and
supervised
by
a
group
of
geologists,
a
gallery
of
minerals
and
rocks,
in
which
a
large
group
of
minerals
and
mineral
ores
are
displayed
in
Egypt,
arranged
and
classified
according
to
the
latest
divisions,
and
from
the
exhibits
in
the
hall
are
a
group
of
precious
stones
and
a
group
of
amber
and
shells
The
preoccupied
royal
family
and
gifted
groups
of
natural
and
industrial
rubies
and
sapphires.
There
are
many
vertebrate
fossils
in
the
museum
in
addition
to
a
complete
skeleton
of
a
whale
of
the
same
type
that
was
discovered
in
1901
by
the
English
scientist
Bidnell,
in
addition
to
the
discovery
by
George
Schwenforth
in
1879
of
the
first
fossil
bones
in
Lake
Qarun
in
Fayoum.
The
museum
also
includes
a
meteorite
from
Mars,
which
is
a
meteorite
that
fell
on
the
village
of
Nakhla
in
Beheira
Governorate
in
1908,
and
it
is
one
of
only
33
meteorites
in
the
world
from
Mars.
Museum
departments
The
museum
includes
6
departments
and
some
factories
for
fossils
and
minerals,
and
the
fossil
laboratory
-
especially
vertebrates
-
is
one
of
the
rare
and
unique
laboratories
in
the
Arab
region.
