The Staatliche Sammlung Ägyptischer Kunst is the Egyptian Museum of Munich. It is located in the Kunstareal, an area of the Maxvorstandt district with a maximum concentration of museums. Inaugurated in 1970, the origin of the museum's vast collection is due to Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria (1528-1579), who bought objects and artifacts from ancient Egypt throughout Europe. In the nineteenth century the great patron of the arts, King Ludwig I of Bavaria, greatly expanded the collection, within his goal of founding the first museums in the city open to the public (he was responsible for the collection of the various art galleries and the glyptothek ).

Initially housed in the Residenz building, the museum has been housed in a new location since 2013, opposite the Alte Pinakothek. Conceived as the tomb of a pharaoh, the museum itinerary takes place underground. The museum's collection includes objects from all Egyptian periods up to the Coptic Christian culture, as well as some archaeological finds from nearby civilizations: Nubia, Assyria, Babylon. The masterpieces of the museum include the double statue of King Niuserre, the sphinx of King Sesostris III, the funerary mask of Queen Sitdjehuti, the marble bust of Antinous (lover of Emperor Hadrian), the sarcophagus of Herit-Ubechet, the head of a statue of Thutmosis IV and the so-called "obelisk of Monk", created to adorn the Temple of Isis at Campo Marzio in Rome.

A curiosity: in 1821 Bernardino Drovetti offered Ludwig I his Egyptian collection from the excavations of Thebes but Ludwig delayed. The deal jumped and the prestigious collection was purchased by King Carlo Felice of Savoy, thus forming the first nucleus of the Egyptian Museum in Turin.