Museum of Islamic Art

The Museum of Islamic Art

On the edge of Islamic Cairo, the Museum of Islamic Art has one of the best collections of Islamic art in the world and is one of Egypt and the Middle East’s most beautiful museums. Only a small percentage of the 80,000 objects are on display but what is here is amazing. The museum was heavily damaged in a car bomb in January 2014 and reopened in early 2017, You can not only visit the Museum of Islamic Art but also you can visit another places in Egypt and do more activities through Things To Do In Egypt and visit another countries to discover their landmarks Egypt Day Tours this will help you alot to choose which country to visit and if you want to travel in affordable price Egypt Budget Tours will suggest you many offers

As you enter to the right are architectural details – frescoes, carved plaster so fine it looks like lace, an inlaid-wood ceiling and ceramics by dynasty. And to the left, pieces are grouped by function and medium – medical tools, astrolabes, stunning carpets, illuminated Qurans and even headstones. And surprisingly there is a lot of figurative work, some of which isn’t even strictly Islamic – a shard of an Ayyubid bowl with Mary holding a crucified Christ , you can also visit the Egyptian Museum if you're interested in Egyptian heritage, also you can try to visit Coptic Museum which have coptic art spanning the early days of christianity in Egypt to early islam,

500m west of Bab Zuweila. 700m from Midan Ataba, down Sharia Mohammed Ali.