Museum · Cairo
Museum of Modern Egyptian Art
Cairo's main modern art museum, showing the pioneers of twentieth-century Egyptian art within the Opera House grounds in Zamalek.
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The story
The museum is the main modern art museum of Cairo, holding works by early twentieth-century pioneers such as Mahmoud Said, Ragheb Ayad, Gazbeya Sirry and Abdel Hadi Al-Gazzar. Some sources trace its founding to 1927, while its current building is reported to have opened to the public in October 1991. It sits in the National Cultural Centre on the former fairgrounds of Zamalek, within the Opera House grounds. Its galleries range across realism, abstraction, surrealism, cubism and Dada.
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- The collection includes works by Mahmoud Said, Ragheb Ayad, Gazbeya Sirry and Abdel Hadi Al-Gazzar.
- The museum stands within the Cairo Opera House grounds in Zamalek.