Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo

Museum of Islamic Art Museum in Cairo is the largest Islamic world and includes a variety of Islamic Art from India, China, Iran, through the arts of the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant, Egypt and North Africa and Andalusia.

Date museum
The idea to build a house combines Islamic artifacts in 1869, during the reign of Khedive Tawfiq where collected in the iwan east of the mosque ruling and decreed in 1881 to form a committee Remember Arab Antiquities, and the Fed this iwan antiques built her a place in a bowl of this mosque even among current museum Square Ahmed Maher Port Said Street (Gulf ancient Egyptian) and its eastern part was known Arab Antiquities House and its western part as the Royal Library.
The museum was opened for the first time on 9 September 1320 AH / December 28, 1903 m in the field of "door of creation" one of the most fields of Islamic Cairo, and next to the most important models of Islamic architecture in the eras of different function on what we have reached the Islamic civilization of prosperity Kjama Ibn Tulun, and Mosque of Mohammed Ali Citadel , and the Citadel of Saladin.
The so called since 1952, because it contains antiques and pieces of art made ​​in a number of Muslim countries, such as Iran, Turkey, Andalusia and the Arabian Peninsula ... Etc., and it was before the so-called Arab Antiquities House.

Description Museum

Museum has two entrances, one in the north east and the other in the south-east, a user now. The interface is characterized by the museum overlooking the Port Said Street Bzachrvatha Islamic-inspired Islamic architecture in Egypt in different eras.
The museum consists of two floors; first exhibition halls and the second stores and basement is used as a storage and restoration of monuments department.