The Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo

The Museum of Islamic Art

Take a tour of the Museum of Islamic Art, which is considered a very large museum that includes a large number of Islamic arts from several countries such as India, China, and Iran, as well as the arts of the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Egypt, North Africa, and Andalusia. Your tour of the museum will be the best in Cairo with ETB Tours Egypt. Take a walk and Learn about a large number of Islamic art. The Museum of Islamic Art is located in Bab Al Khalq Square on Port Said Street in Cairo.

The museum was opened in 1903. The idea of building such an Islamic museum appeared in the rule of the Khedive. A large number of antiquities were collected, and this museum appeared as a small building in the Al-Hakim Mosque, it was called the Arab Museum, and the museum was inaugurated during the reign of Khedive Abbas Helmy II.

What will you see in the Museum of Islamic Art?

Your visit to the Museum of Islamic Art through Egypt travel packages will be aimed at excitement because of the valuable possessions of the princes and kings that you will not see anywhere. At first, there were few antiquities in the museum that belonged to some princes who were interested in Islamic art, after that the gifts and the museum's treasures increased due to the donations provided by the members of the upper family, for example, King Farouk presented a set of textiles and seals, and some princes supplied a large number of Iranian and Turkish carpets, porcelain and Ottoman glass.

In this museum and during Egypt classic tours, you will find unique ancient things similar to the things in the famous museums in the world, not only the antiques that attract tourists, but the museum contains a large number of tools of astronomy, engineering, and surgical and cupping tools that were used in different Islamic eras. You will get acquainted within the museum with tools for measuring time and distances, such as the sand clock. Some lights are made of camouflaged glass. You will also enjoy watching the porcelain metallic lightning.

The Museum is a valuable treasure of the Islamic era

The Museum of Islamic Art includes several achievements in the Umayyad countries and the Abbasid era. You will see the Umayyad wood that was made by the Egyptians using inlays, coloring, and decoration, as well as some wood from Amr ibn al-Aas mosque. Enjoy watching the wood that was made in the Abbasid era in the Tulunid era, it is characterized by the beautiful decorations that are found in Iraq. The importance of wooden antiques is because they are considered an evolution of the Samarra decorations, which are rare masterpieces that have no parallel except in Samarra in Iraq. The Museum of Islamic Art includes metal artifacts such as the jug of Marwan bin Muhammad, the last of the Umayyad caliphs, and this jug is considered the last achievement at the beginning of the era.

If you visit this wonderful museum in Cairo day tours, you will see valuable antiques such as a very rare Qur’an dating back to the Mamluk era and another to the Umayyad era, as well as there is a rare manuscript inside the museum called the Book of Herbs, and there is also a tombstone in the museum dating back to the year 31 AH.

The Museum of Islamic Art and the Key of the Kaaba

Your tour inside the Museum of Islamic Art will be useful from the beginning to the end with Egypt short tour packages, because you will see the Key of the Kaaba made of copper covered with gold, and there is also a gold dinar dating back to the year 77 AH which is the oldest Islamic dinar. Many ancient weights are displayed in this museum. This great museum has Turkish carpets, wool, and silk that belong to the Seljuk, Indian, and Mughal states in the middle century AD.

The great value for the Museum of Islamic Art

The Museum of Islamic Art is an extension of the revival of the museums since the era of Muhammad Ali Pasha because this museum preserves the great human heritage and this was the reason for the construction of this museum to be a place of attraction that includes Islamic heritage and beautiful artifacts that you will see if you take Cairo tour packages

The Museum of Islamic Art is an educational institute in the world concerned the Islamic antiquities, this museum is distinguished by the diversity of its holdings which are the most famous all over the world and were brought from Islamic countries, and the antiques in the museum are very old and these masterpieces have two sources, which is Byzantine art and Sasanian art, but they are distinguished from other arts as they have decorations. These decorations depend on basic elements: written, geometric, plant, and other decorations.

The Sections of the Museum of Islamic Art

In your 15 days Egypt tours you will know that the Museum of Islamic Art has two sections, here is some info about them:

The sections of Wood and Metals

The section of Wood includes different types of Umayyad wood that date back to the Umayyad era, as well as wood dating back to the Abbasid era, wooden pulpits, and reciter chairs for the Holy Qur'an readers in the mosques. In the museum wooden boxes belonging to the sultans and Muslim princes and these things are very old and will make you get acquainted with the life of kings and princes in the ancient era through your Egypt 5 days tour packages, one of the most important sections is the metals section, which includes very valuable collectibles of Mamluk candlesticks and medicine tools and the metal chairs attributed to the sultans and princes that are covered with gold and silver and have beautiful Islamic decorations. In Egypt day tours, you will be amazed by the methods of displaying in this museum to see its holdings, the section on minerals is considered one of the most beautiful sections that attract visitors because it contains antique pieces and wonderful old tools.

The ceramics section and the glass section

The ceramics section includes different types of antiques dating back to the Umayyad era, which is characterized by the metallic luster famous in the Fatimid and Mamluk periods in Egypt. There are also Iranian ceramics. As for the glass section, there is Islamic glass that spread in Sham and Egypt in the Mamluk era And Ayoubi, for example, the wonderful lights. Your visit with luxury Egypt tours to this museum will be varied in a group of wonderful sections, and be sure that you will not see such things anywhere other than the Museum of Islamic Art, after your tour, you will learn a lot and a lot about the Islamic civilization that shook the world and what it includes as arts, crafts, and wonderful treasures, these masterpieces were produced by Great skill artists.