The Nubian Museum was inaugurated on November 23, 1997, The building was designed by the late Egyptian architect “Mahmoud Al Hakim” reflecting the traditional character of the Nubian architecture and it won the Agha-Khan Award of Architecture in 2001.
The museum is located 400 meters away from the southern end of the corniche, on the left-hand side of an uphill road, close to the Old Cataract Hotel.