
Abdeen Palace Museum
Abdeen Palace Museum
Cairo, Egypt
Ornate former palace with 500 rooms, home to museums containing silver, weapons & royal artifacts.
Last updated: February 11, 2026
Overview
Ornate former palace with 500 rooms, home to museums containing silver, weapons & royal artifacts.
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Visitor Reviews
**★★★★★ Medz Meds — 2 months ago
Visiting Abdeen Palace felt like stepping directly into a living chapter of Egypt’s royal history. The palace grounds alone are worth the trip—the gardens are beautifully maintained, highlighted by magnificent gazebos. One of the most striking features is the surreal fig tree, said to have been imported specially from Bangladesh by the king himself.
Inside, the palace is a treasure trove of carefully preserved rooms showcasing an extraordinary collection of the kings’ possessions. From intricat
**★★★★★ Maria Shcherbakova — 3 months ago
A nice museum. You can see a lot of historical weapons and other valuable items there. The place is quiet and relaxing. Open until 3:00 PM. A ticket for foreigners costs 150 EGP.
**★★★★★ Dr. mo Sammour — 3 months ago
We visited so many stately homes and palaces and I will confidently say this tops them all. What a beautiful palace that has architectural brilliance and fantastic collections of artefacts from all the world and civilisations. Alas, king Farouk’s residential parts of the palace were not opened to the public. However, we saw a cinema inside the palace. Really worth visiting this world wonder when in Cairo.
**★★★☆☆ Nophert Elias — 3 weeks ago
Nice to visit. Lots of guns. But also nice silverware and glass. Few painting in the front hall of the old pashas. Outside a big garden.
**★★☆☆☆ Josh T — a month ago
If you book the palace tour two days ahead maybe you will see something neat, but the normal tour or visit is like a presidential library to see all the guilded gifts presidents and kings give each other like a gold plated Kalashnikov from Russia? So i would skip the normal tour.









