Museum of Modern Egyptian Art

The Museum of Modern Egyptian Art, is Cairo, Egypt's main modern art museum holding collections of early 20th Century contemporary art pioneers, including Mahmoud Said, Ragheb Ayad, Gazbeya Sirry, and Abdel Hadi Al-Gazzar, among others. It was inaugurated in 1927 and is part of the National Cultural Centre in the former fair grounds of Zamalek.

The Museum of Modern Egyptian Art

متحف الفن المصرى الحديث
Museum of Modern Egyptian Art, in the Zamalek district, central Cairo.
Established	1927
Location	Cairo, Egypt.
Type	art museum
Collections	The museum holds paintings and sculptures that show the development of the Egyptian art movement from the early 20th century pioneers through contemporary artists' works.
Collection size	13,000
Owner	Ministry of Culture

Collections

The museum holds more than 13,000 paintings and sculptures that show the development of the Egyptian art movement from the early 20th century pioneers through contemporary artists' works. There is are permanent and temporary exhibits of works by renowned Egyptian artists, such as:

• Ahmad Sabri
• Mahmoud Sa'id
• Ragheb Ayad
• Mohammed Naghi
• Gazbia Sirry
• Inji Aflatoun
• Tahia Halim
• Abdel Hadi Al-Gazzar
• Ahmed Morsi
• Ibrahim Mohammed Khalil
• Georges Al-Sabbagh
• George Bahgoury
• Salah Abdel-Karim
• Adam Henein
• Abdel-Badie Abdel-Hay
• Mahmoud Moussa
• Hamed Abdallah

See also

• El Sawy Culture Wheel
• Museum of Islamic Ceramics
• Index: Egyptian artists

Note:

• The similarly named but separate modern art institution, the Museum of Modern Art in Egypt, is in Port Said, Egypt, near the confluence of the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean.