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The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities on Tahrir Square in central Cairo occupies a building by the French architect Marcel Dourgnon, opened in 1902. More than 100 halls on two floors show Pharaonic objects from the Predynastic period to Roman times; the royal mummies moved to the NMEC in 2021.
The Museum of Islamic Art occupies a neo-Mamluk building of 1903 at Bab al-Khalq in central Cairo. Its collection of more than 100,000 objects covers the Islamic world from Spain to India: carved woodwork, ceramics, metalwork, glass, textiles and Qur'an manuscripts. A bomb blast damaged the building in 2014, and the museum reopened in 2017.
The Gayer-Anderson Museum occupies two connected houses of the 16th and 17th centuries beside the Mosque of Ibn Tulun. The British officer Robert Gayer-Anderson lived here from 1935 to 1942 and filled the rooms with his collection of furniture, carpets and objects from Egypt, the Islamic world and Asia. Visitors see the courtyards, mashrabiya screens and reception halls.
The Coptic Museum in Old Cairo was founded by Marcus Simaika in 1908 and holds the largest collection of Coptic Christian art. Its galleries show stone carvings, frescoes from monasteries, icons, textiles, woodwork and manuscripts, including the Nag Hammadi codices. Its façade copies that of the Fatimid Al-Aqmar Mosque, and it stands within the walls of the Babylon fortress.
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