Islamic Art Museum is one of the exceptional museums with large collections of Islamic artefacts that preserves and displays Islamic period with much aplomb. Even if you are not interested in history will mesmerise you and capture you in its slender web.
Tourism In Egypt has some of the most attractive Egyptian Sites and an interesting contemporary culture, the trove of antiquities is what attracts most visitors. Egypt has listed above 50 museums and still many have still to find their way to the list as it has reached the heart of tourist worldwide.
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Name: | Islamic Art Museum |
Established in: | 1903 |
Location: | 30° 3′ 0″ N, 31° 22′ 0″ E |
Opening Hours: | 9:00am-5:00pm |
Place: | Cairo |
Type: | Museum |
Collection Size: | 100, 000 items |
During Ramadan: | till 3:00pm |
The Khedive Ismail approved a proposal for Islamic Art Museum which was not carried out until 1880. When an Australian scholar proposed Mosque of the Fatimid Caliph al-Hakim, to be a provisional seat for the Museum in 1881 and was furnished with 111 architectural pieces taken from other Monuments, Khedive Tawfiq approved a “Committee of Arab Antiquities”, who started running the Arab Museum, and providing it with objects as well as preserving the monuments.
As a result, in 1884, a two-storey structure was built in the courtyard with a collection of 900 objects that staffed it with a curator and a doorkeeper. By 1895, the collection increased to 1,641 making the building insufficient to house everything. That led to the foundations for the larger building in the Bab Al-Khalq area of Cairo in 1899. Officially the museum was opened in 1903 but was finished in 1902.
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