Graeco-Roman Museum

Founded in 1892 to house the growing collection of antiquities unearthed across Alexandria as the modern city expanded over its ancient predecessor, the Graeco-Roman Museum holds artifacts spanning the Ptolemaic, Roman, and early Christian periods of Alexandria's history, roughly the 4th century BCE through the 4th century CE. The collection includes Ptolemaic and Roman-era coinage minted in the city, Roman funerary sculpture, Serapis cult objects, a notable collection of Tanagra-style terracotta figurines, and mosaics recovered from excavated Alexandrian villas. The museum's original building on Al-Mathaf Al-Romani Street, dating to 1895, underwent a lengthy structural renovation, and the collection has been progressively reinstalled following conservation of the historic building. Displays are organized broadly by period and theme, tracing Alexandria's transformation from Alexander the Great's Hellenistic foundation through Roman provincial rule to the rise of Christianity in Egypt, illustrated through statuary, coins, papyri fragments, and funerary stelae. Some galleries juxtapose Pharaonic-style representations of Ptolemaic rulers with fully Hellenistic and Roman portraiture, reflecting the cultural blending characteristic of ancient Alexandria.