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Taggart Library Museum

Opening time: Daily except Fri, Sun and school vacations 8am–2pm

Price: Free

This era also saw the founding by American missionaries of a boys' college (now the co-ed Al-Salaam School), off Midan 6th October: its Taggart Library museum displays such curios as mummified dogs and fish, and pharaonic soldiers' dog-tags.