The Egyptian Museum is a history museum located in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, containing the largest collection of Ancient Egyptian antiquities in the world, with over 120,000 items. The Egyptian government established a museum near the Azbakeya garden in 1835 before moving it to the Cairo Citadel in 1855, Archdule Maximilian of Austria was given all of the artifacts by the Egyptian government, and they were stored at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. A new museum was established by Auguste Mariette at Boulaq in 1858 before being damaged by a Nile flood in 1878, and the collections were moved to a former royal palace in Giza in 1891 before being relocated to a French-designed building at Tahrir Square in 1902. The museum was looted during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, with two mummies being destroyed and around 50 objects being stolen; the museum was also used as a torture site by the police.
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