Railway Museum, Cairo

The Cairo Railway Museum is located on the right of the Misr Railway Station on Ramses Square. It has over 700 exhibits showing the history of railways in Egypt.

The Cairo Railway Museum was inaugurated in 1933 to celebrate the International Railway Conference that took place in Cairo that year. Historical and modern exhibits are displayed and it has become over the years the most important museum that collects and displays memorabilia, carriages and maps and documents about railways in the Middle East.

The Cairo Railway Museum has five sections. The first section traces the history of transport from the era of the Pharaohs until the evolution of the steam engine. There are wooden horse drawn carts from the Bronze Age in this section. The second section has early wagons to the modern trains that are used today. There is a section devoted to stations and models of stations all over Egypt. Another section is dedicated to railway bridges with models of well known Egyptian railway bridges. The last section has exhibits about air transport from the airplane developed by the Wright brothers to the present day. Interesting exhibits are the luxurious private salons of Muhammad Ali Pasha and the locomotive used by Empress Eugenie when she came to open the Suez Canal.