متحف الفن المصري الحديث - The Egyptian museum of modern art

History of the Museum of Modern Egyptian Art:

In 1927, the artist Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil El Saray persuaded the royal palace to issue a royal decree to form an advisory committee for the care of the fine arts. The committee recommended the establishment of the Museum of Modern Art in Cairo, which includes the ministry's holdings. . In the same year, works of art were collected from the Cairo Salon in a small hall at the headquarters of the Association of the lovers of fine art in the "Tigran" street on Ibrahim Pasha Street (now Republic). Added to this collection were some paintings and statues. The group then moved to the site of the wax museum, Abdelmalek, secretary of the Association of lovers of fine arts and the patron of artists at the Musairi family home to become the first building named after the Museum of Modern Art in Egypt. The museum then moved to the Palace of the Count "Zgheib" next to the palace of Huda Shaarawi in the 4th Street of the Nile Palace at the entrance of the street from Tahrir Square The museum has 44 rooms in the palace in addition to the entrance and corridors. In 1963, the museum was closed, where its old building and the library annexed to it were demolished. In 1966, the Egyptian group moved from the museum's residents to a temporary residence in Villa Ismail Abul-Fotouh. The works of the Egyptian artists, which were stored for two years before their transfer to Villa Dokki, have damaged some of them and obscured the fate of others. In 1983, Saray 3 was designated as the new headquarters of the Museum of Modern Art in the new Opera Square. The new headquarters of the museum were built in the exhibition grounds on the island of 1936 in a modern Islamic style that included elements of Art Deco, It was a great achievement that King Fouad I wanted to make a model bearing his name. He was named the chosen building of the museum in the Grand Serail. He planned to include cultural, museum and artistic activities, as did the kings of France and England. .