The Luxor Museum is located on the city's riverside promenade along the Nile, roughly halfway between the Karnak Temple and the Luxor Temple. It was opened in 1975 and extended in 2004. It contains valuable finds of ancient Egyptian art from the royal metropolis of Thebes and the surrounding area of Luxor. The exhibits include burial objects from the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun and a collection of 26 statues from the New Kingdom, which were found in 1989 in the nearby Luxor Temple. The royal mummies of two pharaohs - Ahmose I and Ramses I - were also exhibited in March 2004 as part of an extension to the museum. An important exhibit is the reconstruction of one of the walls of Akhenaten's temple in Karnak. One of the exhibits in the collection is a calcite double statue of the crocodile god Sobek and Pharaoh Amenhotep III from the 18th Dynasty.

Not far from the Luxor Museum is the small Mummification Museum, which was opened in 1997. It illustrates the ancient Egyptian art of mummification through the tools and materials used in the mummification process, the canopic jars used to store the internal organs and the deities of embalming. The museum also displays fascinating collections of protective amulets, coffins and funerary paintings. Among the mummies on display are mummified humans and animals, including crocodiles, cats and fish.

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