Suez Canal Hall

The most conspicuous feature in this hall is a “ Diorama “ of the Imperial ship (The Eagle) at the inauguration ceremony of the Suez Canal in 1869, cruising the Suez Canal from Port-Said to Suez showing all the landmarks and prominent features of the landscape along both banks of the Canal. This diorama was displayed for the first time in an exhibition held in Paris in 1930 and was subsequently donated to the E.G.S. In addition, a collection of maquetts portraying all the Suez-Canal citties as they stood in 1930, thus representing a historical record of how they looked during the first stages of their development. A large number of photographs showing the different stages of digging the Canal and the construction of new settlements. The sequence of these photographs shows the Suez Isthmus with all its topographic and landscapic features, as it looked before the excavation of the Canal