The museum in Luxor, although not on the scale of it's illustrious Cairo predecessor does house a large collection of tremendously significant objects. These include statues from the famous Cachette found buried in Luxor temple as well as a small selection of items from the tomb of Tutankhamun.

Another major exhibit is a re-assembled Talatat wall from a temple of the Aten at Karnak, built by the famous heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten.

Another of the highlights of the Luxor Museum is the modern bright gallery where statues from the Luxor temple cachette are on display. Over a period of years most of the space inside the temple where pious nobles could place their statues became used up, so to alleviate this problem the preists took several of the existing statues and buried them within the temple precincts. This had the double advantage of clearing space for new offerings, and also preserving the sculpture in near perfect condition.

Horemheb offering to Atum

Amongst the fine individual pieces of sculpture on display, this amazing Alabaster diad statue featuring the crocodile headed god Sobek is one of the most striking. Statues of this type are quite common from all periods of Egyptian history, such as the immaculate triad statues of Menkaure found at Giza..