Museum · Alexandria
Cavafy Museum
The Alexandrian apartment where the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy spent most of his life, now a museum in the heart of the city.
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The story
The museum stands in central Alexandria and was originally the home of the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy, who spent the greater part of his life there. The apartment opened to visitors as a museum in 1992 on the initiative of Kostis Moskof, then cultural attaché at the Greek Embassy in Cairo, and it keeps the desk Cavafy used for his daily writing.
Good to know
- The museum occupies an apartment that was once the residence of the poet Cavafy.
- Cavafy lived in this home for most of his life.
- The museum opened to visitors in 1992 on the initiative of Kostis Moskof.
- It occupies the second floor of a turn-of-the-century house on a quiet side street near the Opera House.