The Royal Jewelry Museum has presented a collection of artifacts from the museum's holdings to the public on the official page of museums on social media, during the past few days, to choose one piece under the slogan "You are the one who decides", and which has the highest comment and admiration for being the winner of the April piece.
The Royal Jewelry Museum announced the winning piece that will be displayed at the end of April, which is a statue of a boy squatting on his right knee touching the base and showing the body naked and on his thigh what represents a fishing net holding both hands with a shell, and the features of the face topped with a smile, and on the base around it shows small snails.
The Jewelry Museum announced the suspension of all activities, heritage and cultural activities and artistic workshops, which include large gatherings of citizens, as a precautionary measure to confront the new Corona virus, until further notice, on the museum’s official page, in implementation of the instructions of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and within the preventive measures to confront The virus.
It is worth noting that the Royal Jewelry Museum displays the jewelry of the royal families who ruled Egypt, and is located in Alexandria, the palace was built in 1919 in the Zizinia region and is an architectural masterpiece, and an area of 4185 square meters, and was devoted to Princess Fatima Zahra, one of the princesses of the royal family, and was designed according to the model European buildings in the nineteenth century and from the inside, the palace is decorated with distinctive artistic units.
And it turned into a museum of royal jewelry in the year 1986, and the museum includes a large collection of jewelry and golden artifacts belonging to the royal Alawite family dating back to the year 1805, including rare masterpieces from Muhammad Ali Pasha until Farouk I, these jewelry were confiscated by the July 23 Revolution, and registered as a public museum 1999, the museum currently includes 11, 500 pieces.
Among the most important pieces in the museum are a crown for Queen Safinaz, the wife of King Farouk, made of platinum inlaid with brillant diamonds and a toke of brilliant diamonds. .
Sun, Apr. 5, 2020
