e-Pass Museum is run by Menoufia Access Systems, a technology company based in Shibin el-Kom, the governorate capital of Monufia in the Nile Delta. We are not a museum, not a tour operator, and not a travel agency. We do one thing: we make museum entry something you buy once and carry on your phone, with the coverage stated honestly before you pay. This page explains who we are, how the service began, and the principles we hold to so that you know exactly who you are dealing with — because when a company handles your payment and your entry, you deserve to know whose hands those are in, not just a logo and a checkout button.
The company began in 2022, but the idea began on a single exhausting day a year earlier, when one of our founders spent more of a short Cairo visit standing in ticket lines and counting out cash at counters than actually looking at anything. Five museums, five queues, five payments, five paper stubs to keep track of — and at one door, a payment system that only took exact change. The galleries themselves were extraordinary; the friction of getting into them was absurd.
The realisation was that none of this friction was necessary. The technology to sell a digital pass, deliver it as a QR code and scan it at a door is ordinary and well understood. What was missing was simply a service that assembled those pieces for museum entry in Egypt, stated its coverage plainly, and did not bury fees in an exchange rate or a vague "service charge". So that is what Menoufia Access Systems set out to build, and that narrow focus is still exactly what the company does today. Nothing more was bolted on; we did not become a tour company or a booking marketplace. The service does one job well.
The whole company fits in one office in Shibin el-Kom. That is deliberate — it keeps the service focused and means that when you email support, a person who actually knows how the system works reads it, rather than a script-reading agent three companies removed from the people who built the thing. A small team cannot do everything, but it can do one thing carefully and answer for it honestly, which is exactly the trade we wanted.
Karim is the one who had the exhausting Cairo day. A software engineer by training, he designed the pass system and still owns the product decisions — chief among them the rule that coverage is always stated before purchase and fees are never hidden. He answers the hardest support emails himself, partly out of stubbornness and partly because staying close to where the service hurts is how it gets better.
Yasmine runs the operational side — the agreements that define which museums a pass covers, the relationships that keep that coverage accurate, and the day-to-day running of the service. If a covered museum changes its hours or entry rules, Yasmine is the reason the coverage page reflects it before you arrive rather than after, which is unglamorous work that quietly matters more than almost anything else we do.
Omar builds and maintains the pass-delivery and scanning system — the part that turns a payment into a QR code that works reliably at a door, with or without a signal. He is also responsible for keeping the system secure and for making sure no payment data is ever held where it does not need to be.
Heba leads visitor support — the person, with her small team, who answers your questions before you buy and helps if anything goes wrong at a door. She is also the voice behind the plain-language guides on this site, written to be read by a tired traveller on a phone.
These are not marketing slogans. They are the decisions that shaped the service and the ones we get asked to break most often, by people who would like us to be more profitable and less honest.
You always see exactly which museums a pass covers before you buy it. We will never sell a pass that is vague about what it includes, because that is precisely the trick that erodes trust in services like this.
The price you see is the price you pay. No fee buried in the exchange rate, no surprise "service charge" at checkout, no charge at the door for a pass you already bought. What it costs is on the pricing page.
We are not the museums and not a government body, and we say so on every page. An independent service that is honest about being independent is worth more than one pretending to be official.
The company is young, and we would rather describe its short history honestly than dress it up. Here is the shape of it.
Menoufia Access Systems is registered in Shibin el-Kom and the first version of the pass covers a single region. The early months are spent doing the unglamorous work of confirming coverage museum by museum, because a coverage list you cannot trust is worthless.
More regions are added, and with them the multi-region pass for travellers touring several parts of the country. The group and student rates arrive in response to the people actually buying — families and students were always the core, so the pricing followed them.
Most of this period went into the unseen parts: making the pass scan reliably offline inside heavy old buildings, hardening the system against forged codes, and building the support that can fix a problem at a door in real time. Not visible, but the reason the service holds up.
The company is deliberately still small, still in Shibin el-Kom, still doing one job. Growth has been in coverage and reliability, not in bolting on extras. That focus is a choice we keep making, and the services page explains why.
People sometimes expect a service like this to come out of Cairo. We are in Shibin el-Kom, the capital of Monufia in the heart of the Delta, and that is a deliberate choice rather than an accident. The founders are from the region, the cost of running a focused technology company here is sustainable in a way that lets us keep prices low and resist the pressure to bolt on profitable extras, and being outside the capital keeps the company close to the kind of independent traveller and student we built the pass for, rather than to the tour-industry machinery of the big tourist hubs.
It also means our support is genuinely local labour answering genuinely, not a call centre reading a script. When you email the desk, you reach Shibin el-Kom, and the person who replies can actually change something if it is broken. We think that shows in the service, and it is a large part of why the company has stayed small and focused rather than chasing scale for its own sake. The full detail of how the service runs technically is on the services page, and what each pass costs is on the pricing page.
A small, focused, local company that says plainly what it is. If that suits you, take a look at the passes and what they cover.
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