The 2025 fee-changes log — twenty-eight documented admission changes across twelve museums.
The consolidated record of admission-fee changes at the twelve tracked museums in the 2025 calendar year. Twenty-eight changes documented, ranging from minor adjustments (a single tier moving by ten EGP) to substantial rebalancing (the GEM tourist rate moving from EGP 1 050 to EGP 1 200 in late November). Each change is dated to the effective publication of the Supreme Council's tariff decree or the museum's published policy update.
The 2025 change log — selected entries.
| Date | Museum | Tier | From → To | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Jan 2025 | Museum of Islamic Art | Tourist | EGP 250 → EGP 200 | Council Q1 decree |
| 14 Jan 2025 | Museum of Islamic Art | Student | EGP 125 → EGP 100 | Council Q1 decree |
| 03 Feb 2025 | Sohag Museum | Tourist | EGP 80 → EGP 100 | Sohag visitor-services notice |
| 11 Feb 2025 | Greco-Roman Museum | Tourist | EGP 280 → EGP 300 | Alexandria authority notice |
| 11 Feb 2025 | Greco-Roman Museum | Resident | EGP 25 → EGP 30 | Alexandria authority notice |
| 22 Feb 2025 | Imhotep Museum | Tourist | EGP 180 → EGP 200 | Saqqara site notice |
| 14 Mar 2025 | Mallawi Museum | Tourist | EGP 60 → EGP 80 | Minya cultural office notice |
| 02 Apr 2025 | Nubian Museum | Family pack | Discontinued (was EGP 600 for 2A+2C) | Aswan authority notice |
| 18 Apr 2025 | Cairo Egyptian Museum | Tourist | EGP 500 → EGP 550 | Council Q2 decree |
| 18 Apr 2025 | Cairo Egyptian Museum | Child 6-12 | EGP 250 → EGP 275 | Council Q2 decree |
| 22 May 2025 | Coptic Museum | Tourist | EGP 180 → EGP 200 | Coptic authority notice |
| 22 May 2025 | Coptic Museum | Student | EGP 90 → EGP 100 | Coptic authority notice |
| 03 Jul 2025 | Luxor Museum | Resident | EGP 25 → EGP 30 | Luxor visitor-services notice |
| 15 Jul 2025 | Mummification Museum | Tourist | EGP 180 → EGP 200 | Luxor visitor-services notice |
| 11 Aug 2025 | Bibliotheca Alexandrina | Family membership | EGP 1 000 → EGP 1 200 | Bibliotheca notice |
| 24 Sep 2025 | Sohag Museum | Resident | EGP 8 → EGP 10 | Sohag visitor-services notice |
| 02 Oct 2025 | Mallawi Museum | Resident | EGP 8 → EGP 10 | Minya cultural office notice |
| 14 Oct 2025 | Grand Egyptian Museum | Family pack | EGP 2 500 → EGP 2 800 | GEM official notice |
| 05 Nov 2025 | Imhotep Museum | Student | EGP 90 → EGP 100 | Saqqara site notice |
| 28 Nov 2025 | Grand Egyptian Museum | Tourist | EGP 1 050 → EGP 1 200 | GEM official notice |
| 28 Nov 2025 | Grand Egyptian Museum | Student | EGP 525 → EGP 600 | GEM official notice |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Greco-Roman Museum | Student | EGP 140 → EGP 150 | Alexandria authority notice |
Six further smaller changes (resident-rate adjustments of EGP 5 or below) are recorded in the full subscriber-only export but are not included in this public summary because they fall below the EGP 10 reporting threshold the Index applies to the public log.
The pattern of changes.
The 2025 calendar year saw twenty-eight changes across the twelve museums — an above-average year compared to the cooperative's nine-year baseline of approximately twenty-one changes per year. The two largest single increases were the GEM tourist tier (EGP 150 increase) and the GEM family-pack rate (EGP 300 increase), both reflecting the museum's growing market position and the gradual upward pressure on the GEM's premium-tier pricing. The two largest decreases were the Museum of Islamic Art's tourist and student tiers in January 2025 — the museum's only material price reduction since 2019, reflecting the Supreme Council's effort to encourage visitor return to the Bab al-Khalq complex.
Distribution by source.
Of the twenty-eight changes, fourteen originated from Supreme Council quarterly decrees, eight from individual museum visitor-services notices (typically reflecting the museum's own policy decisions within the Council's framework), four from regional cultural-authority notices (covering the institutions that are administered by their regional authorities rather than directly by the Council), and two from official notices issued by museums with operational autonomy (the GEM and the Bibliotheca, both of which set their own pricing within broad ministry parameters).
Direction of travel across nine years.
The nine-year archive of the fee-changes log shows three structural patterns in Egyptian museum admission. First, tourist tier rates have risen consistently year-on-year, with cumulative increases of between forty and one hundred and twenty percent at the major Cairo and Alexandria institutions over the period 2017 to 2026. The increases broadly track the Egyptian pound's depreciation against the US dollar and the euro over the same period, plus a modest real-terms uplift at the GEM specifically since its phased opening. Second, resident tier rates have risen more slowly than tourist rates, with cumulative increases of between twenty and forty percent over the same period; the Supreme Council's policy of maintaining domestic accessibility has held. Third, family discount provision has narrowed slightly across the period: three museums offered family-group discounts in 2017, two of which (the Nubian Museum and the Cairo Egyptian Museum) discontinued the discount during the period, leaving only the GEM family pack as the standing family-group offering across our rota.
The single largest year-on-year change.
The GEM's 2025 tourist-tier change from EGP 1 050 to EGP 1 200 (an increase of fourteen percent in a single step) was the largest year-on-year tourist-tier change at any of our twelve museums across the nine-year archive. The change was published in the GEM's official notice of 28 November 2025 with effect from 1 December 2025 and was justified by the museum as funding the special-exhibition wing's permanent rotation programme. The Index documents the change neutrally; readers will form their own views on whether the increase is proportionate to the museum's expanded offering.
For the full Q2 2026 current tariffs, see the Cairo tariff and the Luxor and Aswan fees. For the methodology that produces the log, see the methodology page.