Learn about the artifacts that were chosen as the featured pieces for the month of January in museums nationwide

Within the monthly tradition of Egyptian museums nationwide; The museums chose to cut off the month of January, through a public poll through their pages on the social networking sites Facebook.

Professor Moamen Othman, head of the museums sector at the Supreme Council of Antiquities, explained that this tradition comes within the framework of the role of museums as civilized cultural institutions working to raise tourism and archaeological awareness among all segments of society.

On the occasion of the celebration of Christmas, the public chose this month the artifacts that highlight that occasion, as the Coptic Museum, Cairo International Airport Museum 3, Suez National Museum, Ismailia Antiquities Museum, Tanta Antiquities Museum, Alexandria National Museum, and Kom Antiquities Museum were exhibited. Oshim in Fayoum, and the Mallawi Museum in Minya, a group of Christmas icons that depicted the birth of Jesus Christ, as well as the Virgin Mary carrying the Christ Child and next to them Saint Joseph the Carpenter, as well as the icon of the Annunciation, which depicts the angel Gabriel's preaching to the Virgin Mary of the glorious birth.

Sharm El-Sheikh Museum: It displays a colorful mural showing the visit of the Magi to the Christ child, dating back to the seventh century AD.

Cairo International Airport Museum 2: It displays a silver office frame, inside which is an icon image of Joseph the Carpenter carrying Jesus Christ, and the two leaves of the frame have a relief inscription of an angel blowing a trumpet. The frame is topped by an angel's head in relief, and a cross at the top.

Museum of Islamic Art: It displays an astronomical sphere for astronomy and stars, made of copper, and dating back to the Ottoman era.

The Royal Jewelry Museum: It displays a photo album with an outer cover of silver in the form of a Qur’an embellished with colorful enamel and Islamic motifs, inlaid with diamonds, rubies and turquoise.

Farouk Corner Museum in Helwan: Displays a copper fireplace curtain in the form of a peacock's tail consisting of nine hollow feathers in geometric shapes.

The National Police Museum in the Citadel: It displays a piece of tapestry with a drawing of a knight on horseback, executed in a dark color on a light ground within an oval-shaped edge surrounded by decorations and geometric shapes dating back to the Coptic era.

Manial Palace Museum: It displays a group of deer heads, which were known to pull carts for Christmas celebrations.

Royal Vehicles Museum: It displays a bronze bust of Khedive Ismail, with the signature of the French manufacturer.

Gayer Anderson Museum: It displays a round seal with an inscription and a long handle used to carve festive cakes.

Matrouh Museum of Antiquities: It displays a limestone tombstone from the late Roman era, inscribed with a woman surmounted by a shell, and on either side of it are two columns surmounted by trusses, on both sides of which are two mythical birds, both holding a plant branch, and on both sides of the head is an inscription in the form of a cross.

Tell Basta Museum: It displays a limestone tombstone, which is a rectangular tablet with 7 horizontal lines of incised Coptic writing.

Hurghada Museum: It displays a piece of linen and woolen tapestry with drawings representing the Virgin Mary carrying Christ around whom the angels are surrounded.

Kafr El-Sheikh Museum: displays a manuscript containing the four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John)

Sohag National Museum: One of the keys to the Monastery of Anba Shenouda, "The White Monastery", is displayed. It is a large key with teeth decorated with small circles, and the upper part is inlaid with metal foil in the form of crosses, and it ends with a ring for hanging.

Luxor Museum of Ancient Egyptian Art: It displays a rectangular decorated panel, which is likely to have been among the decorations of one of the churches that were built inside and outside the Luxor Temple in the Christian era.

Mummification Museum in Luxor: It displays the “Alba” statue, made of colored wood, which is a bird with a human head, and it symbolized the soul of the deceased.

New Valley Antiquities Museum: It displays an Arabic alphabet with drawings and pictures in color, and it consists of 92 papers in Arabic and Coptic.