2 Best Sights in Sharm el-Sheikh and Red Sea Coast, Egypt

Opened in 2021, the first antiquities museum in the Red Sea Governorate is state of the art. Its collection is much smaller than those at museums and archaeological sites in Cairo and Luxor, but its exhibits, nevertheless, include hundreds of artifacts that highlight 5,000 years of Egyptian history.

As part of a grand plan to showcase Egyptian history across the country, the state-of-the-art Sharm el-Sheikh Museum opened in 2017 with major ancient pharaonic artifacts. Notable items include the heads of statues of Hatshepsut and Ramses II; the inner and outer coffins of Isetemheb; and the ornate, 21st-Dynasty sarcophagus of the nobleman, Imesy, which was repatriated to Egypt by U.S. authorities in 2010. There's also a small collection of Coptic art.