Egyptian Museum (Tahrir Square)
El Tahrir Square, Qasr Al Doubara, Cairo, 11519, Egypt
The Egyptian Museum on Tahrir Square is the most important collection of pharaonic antiquities in the world — over 120,000 artifacts spanning 5,000 years of Egyptian civilisation, housed in a pink neoclassical building from 1902 that is itself a monument to the 19th-century passion for Egyptology.
Gayer-Anderson Museum
Ahmad Ibn Tulun Street, El-Sayeda Zeinab, Cairo
The Gayer-Anderson Museum is one of Cairo's most charming hidden treasures — two 17th-century Ottoman houses connected by a bridge and filled with the eclectic collection of Major Robert Gayer-Anderson, a British army officer who lived in the houses from 1935 to 1942 and filled them with Islamic art, Chinese porcelain, Persian carpets, pharaonic antiquities, and the accumulated curiosities of a life spent collecting in Egypt and the Middle East.
Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM)
Al Remaya Street, Kafr Nassar, Giza, 12559, Egypt
The Grand Egyptian Museum is the most ambitious museum project of the 21st century — a 490,000-square-metre complex near the Giza Pyramids designed to house the complete collection of Egyptian antiquities, including the entire Tutankhamun collection (5,400 objects, many never previously displayed) in a single purpose-built institution.
Manial Palace
1 Al Manial Street, Al Roda And Al Mekyas, Cairo, 11553, Egypt
The Manial Palace is the most beautiful palace museum in Cairo — a 19th-century royal residence on Rhoda Island in the Nile built by Prince Muhammad Ali Tewfik (uncle of King Farouk) in an eclectic mix of Ottoman, Moorish, Persian, and Rococo styles that is simultaneously overwhelming and exquisite.
Museum of Islamic Art
Port Said Street, Bab al-Khalq, Cairo
The Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo is one of the finest collections of Islamic art in the world — over 100,000 objects spanning 1,400 years and the full geographic range of the Islamic world, from Umayyad Syria and Abbasid Iraq through Fatimid and Mamluk Egypt to Ottoman Turkey and Mughal India.
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