a center for preserving the Egyptian cultural heritage and protecting it from looting and extinction. This heritage contains what is material and what is immaterial: material heritage is tangible heritage, which is all things produced and created by the Egyptian man throughout the ages in science, arts, literature, architecture, engineering, astronomy, language, administration, beliefs and religions. Regarding immaterial heritage is intangible heritage or oral heritage like customs, traditions, proverbs, folk tales, and literal skills inherited from grandparents from the distant or near past. The museum overlooks a Lake of Ein el-Sira with its natural water that flow s from the depths of the earth called the Eye of Life. for the beginning of the idea of establishing the museum of civilization, it dates back to 1939 under the reign of King Farouk. In fact, the museum was established in 1949 but  they stoped because of the revolution of nasser in 1952 and now it is the opera h...