On this day, January 16, 1938 AD, the Agricultural Museum was inaugurated in the Saray of Princess Fatima Ismail, which she had donated in 1908 to the Egyptian University, and is considered one of the most important national museums in Egypt specialized in agricultural archaeological collections, and we review an overview of the museum through a group Of questions and answers.
Q / Where is the Agricultural Museum?
C / I was staying in the Saray of Princess Fatima Ismail, daughter of Khedive Ismail, in the Dokki neighborhood.
Q / What is the area of the Agricultural Museum?
A / The Agricultural Museum is one of the largest museums in Egypt, with an area of 125,000 square meters, of which museum buildings occupy about 20,000 square meters, and the rest of the museum area is a garden that includes multiple types of trees and rare plants, green spaces, in addition to two gardens in the Pharaonic style .
Q / What does the museum land include?
A / The museum consists of three buildings for exhibits, the first building is devoted to the plant kingdom, the second building is devoted to the animal kingdom exhibits, and the third building houses the historical exhibition of Egyptian agriculture from prehistoric times to the present day. The museum also has a library, cinemas and lectures halls, as well as the entomological collection.
Q / When did the museum start work?
A / It began to be implemented in 1930 when the Egyptian Cabinet issued a decision on November 21, 1927, and was initially called the Fouad I Agricultural Museum.
Q / What is the purpose of establishing the museum?
A / The goal of establishing the Agricultural Museum is to document Egypt's agricultural memory, and a window from which all generations overlook Egypt's agricultural civilization, in addition to being a center for agricultural culture.
Q / What do the museum's holdings tell?
A / Including thousands of exhibits and collectibles that offer in their entirety a historical reading of agriculture and its development in Egypt since the era of the Pharaohs. The museum represents a destination for scholars and researchers in the field of agricultural, veterinary and historical research and studies. Among the pharaohs, and models of historical agricultural machines such as the miller or grain milling machine, dating back 15 thousand years, in addition to many photographs and oil artwork that refer you to the atmosphere of the past and the development of agricultural methods of the Egyptian peasant and rural life forms throughout history.
Q / What does the Agricultural Museum contain?
A / The Agricultural Museum contains six of the most important types of specialized museums, which are the museum that includes ancient archaeological collectibles, the museum that includes holdings from the Greek and Roman era, a museum of archaeological collections, the Museum of Scientific Collections, the Museum of the Plant Kingdom, the Cotton Museum.
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