Egyptian Museums
Egypt is well known for having a lot of monuments and great museums. But a lot of people think that Egypt has only historical museums. The number of Cairo museums is around 35 between historical, religious, and art museums. In this blog we will introduce some of the art museums in Cairo to you.
Gayer Anderson museum as one of the Egyptian museums
The Gayer Anderson museum is considered to be one of the most marvelous historical structures in Egypt and one of the most beautiful of Cairo museums. The museum is located near the famous Ahmed Ibn Tulun Mosque in the Islamic area of Cairo.
The museum consists of two historical houses facing each other, both constructed during the Ottoman period.
The first house, the Karelia House, was constructed in 1631 while the other one, which was built by Abdel Kader El Haddad, was erected in 1540.
The two houses are connected together with a passageway.
It was called Gayer Anderson’s museum as the Egyptian authorities granted the British officer Gayer Anderson the
two houses as his residence to live in in 1935.
In this time, Anderson was able to collect a large collection of furniture, carpets, and many other eastern and Egyptian handicrafts that are beautiful and interesting to tourists today.
However, in 1942, Gayer Anderson had to leave Egypt and the Egyptian government allowed people to visit the house and view his collection, before eventually allowing the whole complex to simply become a museum.
Oum Kalthoum museum :
Oum Kalthoum museum is one of Cairo museums that is located in the Monastirli palace.
The museum was built as a commemoration to the legendary Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum.
It houses most of her remarkable musical history and her collections and belongings.
The museum consists of four halls; the main hall, the cinema hall, The Audio visual Library Hall, The Panorama Hall.
The main hall houses Oum Kalthoum’s personal belongings, medals and honors in addition to murals of Kawkab al-Sharq rare photos, Musical notes, and manuscripts of lyrics of her songs written by renowned poets and some of her letters.
The cinema hall contains a short documentary film produced by cultural Development Fund showing selections of her life in addition to scenes of her movies and concerts in Egypt and the Middle East concluding it with her funeral.
The documentary film is available in Arabic, English and French.
The audio visual library hall consists of five computers displaying all of her songs,
pictures of her concerts and trips inside and outside Egypt, her movies and there is a full record of Arabic newspaper articles about
Umm Kulthum from 1924 to 2000. While the last hall displays a 10-minute panorama of umm Kulthum’s photos
through various stages of her life.
The Egyptian textile museum as one of the Egyptian museums :
Egyptian Textile Museum is a sable built on Al-Mo’ez Street by Muhammad Ali Pasha as a charity for his son Ismail who died in Sudan.
It was converted in 2010 into the Egyptian textile museum.
Egyptian Textile Museum is one of the most beautiful Cairo museums. It is well constructed and decorated with exquisite decoration.
The museum is the first of its kind in the Middle East.
It contains nearly 1000 pieces of different ages, giving the visitor a complete picture of the development of this industry in Egypt from
the Pharaonic to the Muhammad Ali Dynasty.
The museum consists of two floors with eleven halls and the oldest piece of the pharaonic era. It is really amazing and worth visiting.
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