**Mallawi Museum**
Mallawi Museum

Established	1963
Location	Minya Governorate, Upper Egypt
Coordinates	27°44′08″N 30°50′40″E / 27.73556°N 30.84444°E / 27.73556; 30.84444

Mallawi Museum is a museum of Egyptian antiquities in Mallawi, Minya Governorate, Upper Egypt.

The museum was established in 1963 to house finds from local excavations and held an important collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts until it was looted in August 2013.^[1]^[2] Over 1000 pieces were stolen or destroyed in the looting but around half of those have since been recovered.^[3]

References

^ Pictures: Looters Shatter Museum of Ancient Egyptian Treasures by A.R. Williams, National Geographic Daily News, 23 August 2013.
^ Egypt’s Mallawi Museum ransacked by Julia Halperin in The Art Newspaper, 21 August 2013. Archived here.
^ Warning: Looting of the Malawi National Museum in the Upper Egypt city of Minya UNESCO, 24 September 2013. Archived here.

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