This museum Located at Cairo Railway station in Ramsis Square lies the Railway Museum. There is a vast difference between the atmosphere surrounding the museum and the world inside it. Noises of cars, trains, and people shouting are clearly heard outside. This is because Ramsis is considered one of the most crowded areas in Cairo. However, inside the museum everything seems calm and quite as if we are still living in the good old days. Even the employees working there seem as if they belong to the past century.
The Railway Museum was founded in 1933. It was finished on October, 1932 and first opened on January, 1933. It was originally built to celebrate the international railway conference which was held in that same year in Cairo. This allowed the conference members to experience the first railway museum in the Middle East.
The museum contains more than seven hundred pieces of models in addition to a collection of statistical documents and maps that demonstrate the development of transportation through the last decades. Therefore, the Railway Museum is considered the most important institute to collect information about transportation in the Middle East
