Museum · Cairo
Gayer-Anderson Museum
Two historic Cairene houses of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries beside the Mosque of Ahmad ibn Tulun, preserving furniture, carpets and curios in the atmosphere of an old Cairene home.
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The story
The museum stands beside the Mosque of Ahmad ibn Tulun and takes its name from Major Robert Grenville Gayer-Anderson Pasha, who lived in the house between 1935 and 1942 with special permission from the Egyptian government. It is made up of two houses (dated by tourism sources to about 1540 and 1632), that of Muhammad ibn al-Hajj Salim and that of Lady Amina bint Salim, joined by a bridge. It is one of the few surviving examples of seventeenth-century domestic architecture in Cairo, and is known for its collection of furniture, carpets and curios.
Good to know
- The museum has 29 halls, among them the well-known Indian, Chinese, Damascus, Persian and Turkish rooms.
- The total site covers about 4,000 square metres.