Cataract vision: The ideas behind this museum, built to celebrate the civilizations inundated by the aswan high dam, are terribly compromised. But it is very popular.(Nubian Museum at Aswan in Egypt)(Brief Article)

From: The Architectural Review | Date: November 1, 2001 | Copyright information

The Nubian Museum at Aswan in Egypt was set up to salvage and display artefacts that would have been inundated when Lake Nasser filled the valley after construction of the notorious High Dam in the 1960s. It is in the hotel district, on a ridge to the south-west of the city, between Nile and airport road. In Pharaonic times, it was a granite quarry for statues and obelisks.

The museum has two parts, the building proper, and an outdoor exhibition with some transplanted ol...

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