Description
The Museu Egipci de Barcelona is a private museum of ancient Egypt in the Eixample, on Carrer de València close to Passeig de Gràcia. More than a thousand objects, gathered by the hotelier Jordi Clos, fill two floors; a third hosts temporary exhibitions.
The collection is arranged by theme: pharaohs and officials, gods and temple worship, jewelry, cosmetics, burial customs and tomb furnishings. Among the highlights are a statue of Ramesses III, a head of the pharaoh Nectanebo I, a gold head of Osiris and a Roman-era mummy known as the Lady of Kemet.
Look also for the gold ring of Sa-Neith and a stela naming Cleopatra VII. The library keeps a copy of the Description de l'Égypte and a letter from the Egyptologist Rosellini to Champollion.
It all began in 1992, when Clos showed 70 pieces from his collection at the Hotel Claris. The museum opened two years later with about 300 works and moved to its present building in 2000.
The collection is arranged by theme: pharaohs and officials, gods and temple worship, jewelry, cosmetics, burial customs and tomb furnishings. Among the highlights are a statue of Ramesses III, a head of the pharaoh Nectanebo I, a gold head of Osiris and a Roman-era mummy known as the Lady of Kemet.
Look also for the gold ring of Sa-Neith and a stela naming Cleopatra VII. The library keeps a copy of the Description de l'Égypte and a letter from the Egyptologist Rosellini to Champollion.
It all began in 1992, when Clos showed 70 pieces from his collection at the Hotel Claris. The museum opened two years later with about 300 works and moved to its present building in 2000.