Coptic Museum, Giza

The Coptic Museum is a museum in Coptic Cairo, Egypt with the largest collection of Egyptian Christian artifacts in the world. It was founded by Morcos Smeika Pasha in 1910 to house Coptic antiquities. The museum traces the history of Christianity in Egypt from its beginnings to the present day. It was erected over a land offered by the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria under the guardianship of Pope Cyril V. Morcos Smeika Pasha founded the Coptic Museum in 1910 after raising funds by public subscription. He used his influential position in the Coptic community to acquire many Coptic artifacts from old Coptic houses. The Egyptian government actively supported the initiative, and by 1947 a new wing was added to house a collection that was kept in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The Coptic Museum was renovated in 1983-84 and again in 2005-06. Morcos Pasha Smeika was followed by Dr Togo Mina and then by Dr Pahor Labib, the first to have the title of Director of the Coptic Museum.

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