The Cairo Coptic Museum is the repository of the largest collection of early Egyptian Christian art in the world. The displays tell the tale of Egypt between the age of the Pharaohs and Islamic rule.
The Coptic Museum was established by Markus Simaika Pasha in 1910. It was built on land intended for a Coptic Church after the founder obtained permission from the Pope Cyril V of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. The building and surrounding garden covers an area of 8000 square meters. It contains objects donated by the Coptic community and artifacts that were once housed in the Egyptian Museum. It became a State Museum in 1931.
Exhibits at the Coptic Museum are arranged in two floors. The third floor has a library with 1200 of the Nag Hammadi manuscripts, a valuable collection of early Christian Gnostic texts found near the town of Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt. The library is only open for researchers and historians. The first floor has religious artifacts and objects made of carved stone, stucco work, religious frescoes and wooden objects. The second floor has textiles, manuscripts, a valuable collection of Coptic icons and metal objects. It has a collection of over 16,000 works of art of which 12,000 are displayed at a given time.

The Postal Museum is located at Al-Ataba Square in Middle Cairo, on the second level of the Central Post Office. The museum was founded in February 1934 and it opened its doors to the public in January 1940. The Postal Authority unfolded and enlarged the museum into a statement on the development of mail delivery in Egypt over the years. The museum has a collection of artifacts, paintings and papers illustrating the ways in which messages have been delivered within Egypt over the centuries.

The Abdeen Palace is a large ornate building that is one of the official residences and the main office of the President of Egypt. A portion of the palace is now a museum.
The Abdeen Palace was built on the ruins of an old house belonging to Abdeen Bay, a commander of Mohamed Ali Pasha the Wali of Egypt. In 1872, Kedive Ismail, the then ruler of Egypt moved to the palace from the citadel and made it his official residence. The present building was constructed between 1863 and 1874. It was designed by the French architect, Rousseau and Egyptians, Turkish, French and Italian decorators worked on its ornate interiors. It was the scene of the Abdeen Palace incident of 1942 when King Faroukh I was forced to abdicate by the British.
The Abdeen Palace has lavish interiors with sculpture, paintings and clocks decorated with pure gold in its parlors and wings. The first floor is now used for visiting foreign dignitaries and the lower floors have museums including the Arms Museum, the Royal Family Museum, the Historical Documents Museum that was recently inaugurated in 2005 and the Presidential Gifts Museum displaying gifts given to the former Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak.

The Ethnological Museum was set up in 1895 by Khedive Ismail and gives visitors the opportunity to learn about local traditions and heritage in "fancy Cairo". Displays include merchandise sold by vendors, conventional musical instruments and school instruments.

The Egyptian Antiquities Museum, popularly known as the Egyptian Museum is a repository of the largest collection of ancient Egyptian objects in the world. It is located to the north of Tahrir Square next to the Nile Hilton hotel.
The Egyptian Museum was established to prevent the removal of Egyptian treasures by foreigners in the 1830s. It first occupied a building in Bulaq on the banks of the River Nile in 1863. After many objects were damaged when the building was flooded, a new museum was built. The present building was designed by French architect, Marcel Dourgnon and inaugurated in 1902.
The Egyptian Museum has a collection of over 120.000 items. Notable exhibits are objects from Pharaoh Tutankhamen’s tomb displayed on the second floor including a golf funerary mask and sarcophagus. The second floor also has a Mummy room with the mummified remains of 11 kings and queens. One room on the same floor displays mummified birds and animals found in royal tombs. The ground floor has a collection of papyrus and coins. The collection not only has papyrus and coins from the age of the Pharaohs but also from the Greek and Roman civilizations. There is also a collection of coins minted under Islamic rule. Other objects displayed on the ground floor are tablets, statues and coffins from the age of the Pharaohs.

The Kahalil Museum houses the collection of art and objects of Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent Egyptian politician and his wife Emiline Lock. It consists of many valuable paintings and rivals many private European art collections.
The Mohamed Khalil palace that houses the Museum was built in 1920 in Giza, Cairo. It has an art deco style of architecture. The eastern part of the palace that overlooks the River Nile has an art nouveau style and includes a metal and glass skeleton above the main entrance. The building covers an area of 1400 square meters and has four floors. It became a museum in 1962. The collection was temporarily moved to another palace in the Zamaleck area of Cairo and returned once the Khalil palace was extensively renovated in 1971.
The Khalil Museum has a valuable collection of European painting by great masters including Paul Gaugin, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir and Vincent Van Gogh. The paintings, ‘Sun Flower’ by Vincent van Gogh and ‘Life and Death’ by Paul Gaugin are placed in individual rooms for visitors to marvel in private. There is also an impressive collection of vases from France, China, Japan, Iran and Egypt and a vast collection of Chinese miniature figures.