Mallawy Museum in Minya has received 3,500 visitors over the past two months since re-opening in September, according to the director general of the museum Ahmed al-Laithy. The director general of the museum added in a statement to Borsa, 3,000 out of 3,500 visitors were local students and the rest were foreign and local visitors. The museum organized crafts workshops and educational activities for students, which attracted a larger number of visitors from Minya schools, he said. The one-storey Mallawy Museum was robbed in August 2014 and its doors and walls were destroyed. The ministry said it had retrieved 930 robbed artifacts out of 1,089 stolen pieces.

Source: Egypt Independent November 30, 2016 11:28 UTC