We celebrate the International Day of Museums, on the 18th of May every year, and Egypt has a large number of diverse art museums, so we will review with you the most prominent museums of the various plastic arts sector that you can visit:
Mahmoud Khalil Museum and his wife
The museum’s holdings include a rare collection of Japanese-style Enro boxes, which occupy the ground floor of the museum, along with the first and second floors, while the basement floor is occupied by the administration, library, information center, and a large hall for research discussions.
The Museum of Modern Art at the Egyptian Opera House
The museum is different from other Egyptian museums, as it combines an unlimited number of intellectual trends. In it you will find paintings that represent the realistic, abstract, surreal, cubist and Dada school, and this is evident from the diversity of the artist’s work. You may even see one artist more than one work belonging to different schools during his life stages.
Mahmoud Mukhtar Museum in the island region
Mokhtar is a museum in Cairo, Egypt that includes statues of the Egyptian sculptor Mahmoud Mokhtar (May 10, 1891 - March 28, 1934). Mokhtar is considered one of the few pioneering artists in sculpture and the owner of the famous Egyptian Renaissance statue and has a museum in his name that exists to this day. A kiss for art students in Egypt and a witness to an important historical and political period.
Mohamed Nagy Museum in the pyramid
The museum includes 1200 paintings distributed in two main galleries, the first was the artist's studio, and the second was created by the Ministry of Culture to display the paintings, in addition to the presence of a library and a store containing some works and collectibles.
Museum of Egyptian glass art, sculpture and pastes
The museum is located near Saqqara and the grand pyramid, and the museum is in harmony with the surrounding environment as if it is part of the nature of the place, founded by the artist Aida Abdel Karim, wife of the pioneer of the art of glass sculpture Zakaria Al-Khanani, with the aim of preserving the art of forming and sculpting glass, and the museum was inaugurated on the seventh anniversary of the death of Al-Khanani.
Gamal Abdel Nasser Museum in Mansheyet El-Bakry
The museum is two floors. The main halls represented in my main office were kept in each of the ground and first floors and the salons attached to them, in addition to the president's bedroom, the living room, and two salons on the ground floor, in addition to my hall for collectibles and decorations.
Mustafa Kamel Museum in Al-Ibagya area
It includes two halls that contain some of the belongings of the leader Mustafa Kamel, represented in his books and letters in his handwriting, and some pictures of his friends and relatives, as well as some of his personal belongings, including clothes, eating utensils and his office room, and the museum also includes oil paintings depicting the Dinshway incident.
Ahmed Shawky Museum in Giza
Inside the museum on the ground floor in the wing of Muhammad Abdul-Wahhab, which includes the library of Ahmed Shawki, which contains 332 books in addition to manuscript drafts of his poetry in his handwriting. There are also works attributed to the singer and composer Mohamed Abdel-Wahhab, who Ahmed Shawki introduced to art and who presented works written by Ahmed Shawky. There is also a high-tech audio library in the museum that contains recordings of Abdel Wahab's singing performance in the presence of Ahmed Shawky, the upper floor includes his bedroom in addition to the bedroom of his wife Khadija Shaheen. In another room on the upper floor, there are more than 750 manuscripts and drafts of the poet’s works, and a collection of oil paintings, artifacts, and pictures related to Ahmed Shawki’s life.
Effat Nagy and Saad Al-Khadem Museum in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood
The Mohamed Nagy Museum was established in 1968. Nagy donated 40 of her brother's paintings to create a collection of her brother's works.
Angie Plato Museum
The aim of establishing the museum is to make her works available to art students in order to study her artistic style, and in order to be a reference to know the development of her artistic style and the stages that she went through in her personal life; The museum was established in one of the monuments in order to benefit from the public visiting Prince Taz Palace, whether to visit or to attend cultural and artistic activities.
The Ummah House Museum in Al Muneera
The museum includes French furniture in the style of the Louis XV era, Arabic furniture inlaid with ivory, and art collections, including 12 oil paintings by major plastic artists, including: Youssef Kamel and Mahmoud Hussein, as well as personal belongings of the late national leader and the rare artifacts he loved.
Taha Hussein Museum in the pyramid
At the entrance to the museum there is a statue representing the head of Taha Hussein in bronze from the work of the artist Abdel Qader Rizk in 1936, the chair on which Taha Hussein was sitting, the office on which his secretary was writing, the dining hall, the place reserved for his son Mu'nis, as well as two rooms for the administration, showing some of Dr. Taha Hussein's belongings from clothes And Arab and foreign medals, the Nile necklace he received, and medals given to him on various occasions.
Museum of a friend's salary in Al-Munib
The artist’s work includes Ratib Siddiq, which numbered 146 artworks, in addition to the works of his wife, the plastic artist Aida Shehata, as well as an open theater, a library, seven workshops for handicrafts of leather, ceramics, graphics, drawing and photography, in addition to electric ovens for ceramics, an exhibition hall, and a center. For children's art workshops, and a warehouse building.
Abnoud Museum, Qena Governorate
The museum is located on an area of 640 square meters and contains many sections that contain books of literature and biography semicircular and was built by self-efforts, the museum is a destination for every student or amateur in the field of folklore, as the museum’s holdings which contain the complete biography volumes and a set of cassette tapes that contain Inside it is Al-Sira Al-Hilaliya, in the voice of the poet Rababa Jaber Abu Hussein, and with it a detailed explanation of the Sira Al-Hilaliyya squares in the voice of the late poet Abdul Rahman Al-Abnoudi.
Dinshway Museum of Menoufia Governorate
The museum was established in 1963 on the same land that witnessed the events of the Dinshaway Incident, in which the Egyptian peasants were tried. Then the museum was rebuilt to become a huge museum and historical artistic cultural institution, and it was officially reopened on July 1, 1999 to commemorate the role of this national incident. The museum was designed by engineer Hani A.
Wed, May. 19, 2021
