The child and family pricing table — age cutoffs and family-pack discounts.

The age-cutoff matrix.

Museum	Free entry age	Child rate age	Documentation required	Family discount
Grand Egyptian Museum	Under 6	6–12 at half rate	Passport or birth certificate	Yes — family pack 2A+2C at 30% off
Cairo Egyptian Museum (Tahrir)	Under 6	6–12 at half rate	Passport or birth certificate	No
Coptic Museum	Under 6	6–12 at half rate	Stated age accepted	No
Museum of Islamic Art	Under 6	6–12 at half rate	Stated age accepted	No
Greco-Roman Museum (Alexandria)	Under 6	6–16 at half rate	Passport or school card	No
Bibliotheca Alexandrina museums	Under 6	6–16 at half rate	Stated age accepted	Yes — annual family membership
Luxor Museum	Under 6	6–12 at half rate	Passport or birth certificate	No
Mummification Museum	Under 6	6–12 at half rate	Stated age accepted	No
Nubian Museum (Aswan)	Under 6	6–16 at half rate	Passport or school card	No
Sohag Museum	Under 6	6–12 at half rate	Stated age accepted	No
Mallawi Museum (Minya)	Under 6	6–12 at half rate	Stated age accepted	No
Imhotep Museum (Saqqara)	Under 6	6–12 at half rate	Stated age accepted	No

The three under-16 institutions.

Three museums extend the child-rate cutoff to age 16 rather than the standard age 12: the Greco-Roman Museum at Alexandria, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina's museums, and the Nubian Museum at Aswan. The under-16 cutoff makes a material difference to family budgets when teenage children are travelling. The three museums share an institutional connection — all three are administered by their respective regional cultural authorities rather than directly by the Supreme Council of Antiquities, and the regional authorities have set the under-16 cutoff independently. The Supreme Council's own museums use the under-12 standard.

The Grand Egyptian Museum family pack.

The GEM family pack is currently the only formal family-group discount offered at any of our twelve tracked museums. The pack covers two adults plus two children under twelve at thirty percent off the equivalent individual rate (EGP 2 800 tourist instead of the four-times-tourist-rate of EGP 4 000). The pack must be purchased as a single transaction at the ticket window or through the GEM's official online booking channel. A second adult or second child cannot be added at the time of entry; if the family group is larger than 2A+2C, the additional members are charged at the individual rate.

The Bibliotheca's family membership.

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina offers a family-membership programme (separate from a single visit's admission) at EGP 1 200 per year covering two adults and up to three children. The membership includes unlimited admission to the Bibliotheca's three museum spaces plus discounts at the Bibliotheca's other facilities. The programme is the only museum-membership in our rota; eleven museums offer single-visit admission only. The family-membership economics work out favourably for a family that plans more than four visits per year; for one-off visitors the single-visit admission is cheaper.

Documentation requirements at the ticket window.

The under-6 free-entry threshold requires documented proof of the child's age at the four large Cairo institutions (passport, Egyptian birth certificate, or original-issue official identifier). The smaller museums accept the stated age without documentation, though the museum reserves the right to ask for documentation if a stated age looks implausible. The Luxor Museum and the Nubian Museum at Aswan have been intermediate institutions in this respect — they typically accept stated age but have, on documented occasions, asked for documentation when the child appears older than the parent's claim. Visiting families should travel with the child's passport in any case.

Practical recommendations for visiting families.

For families planning a multi-museum visit to Egypt, the Index's practical recommendations are as follows. One, travel with the children's passports rather than rely on stated age, especially at the four Cairo institutions where documentation is consistently requested. Two, if any of the children are aged thirteen to sixteen, build the museum itinerary around the three under-16 institutions where possible (the Greco-Roman Museum at Alexandria, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and the Nubian Museum at Aswan); the cost saving across a teenage child can be substantial. Three, if multiple Cairo museums are in the itinerary, the GEM family pack covers two adults plus two children under twelve at thirty percent off the equivalent individual rate; the saving is meaningful if the family fits the 2A+2C structure exactly. Four, if the family plans more than four visits to the Bibliotheca's museums across a year, the family-membership programme at EGP 1 200 is favourable compared to individual visits.

For the full tariff context, see the Cairo tariff, Luxor and Aswan fees, and the methodology page for the four-tier framework. The annual fee-changes record is in the 2025 changes log.