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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4.0 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #29 of 131 attractions in Cairo
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This museum features the items of antiquity collected by John Gayer-Anderson, a British member of the Egyptian civil service in the 1930s and ‘40s... more » This museum features the items of antiquity collected by John Gayer-Anderson, a British member of the Egyptian civil service in the 1930s and ‘40s, who restored two adjacent 16th- and 17th-century houses decorated with mashrabiyya screens and marble inlays. « less
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Attraction type: Art museum, Historic home
Address: 4 Maydan Ibn Tulun
Old Cairo Cairo
Egypt
Tel: 02/364-7822

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“One of Cairo's little know special places”
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4 of 5 stars
cairowendy 93 contributions
Cairo, Egypt
Jan 3, 2009

Gayer Anderson Museum is well worth a visit, 2 renovated Islamic Houses, which are attached to the walls of Ibn Touloun Mosque. Ideal to vist the the Mosque and Museum in the same visit, The houses were used in one of the old James Bond film (sorry forgot which one). Recommend that you give time for this museum and the... more

“an little-known gem”
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5 of 5 stars
A TripAdvisor Member
London, UK
Feb 14, 2005
11/11 found this review helpful

This was an absolute gem we saw on our last day in Cairo. It was once 2 houses (built in the 16th and 17th centuries) which was converted into a single house, restored and decorated by a British Major, John Gayer-Anderson, who lived there for 7 years in the 1930s and 40s. The house has the most wonderful feel to... more

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Gayer-Anderson Museum (Bayt al-Kiritliya) Address

4 Maydan Ibn Tulun | Old Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Tel: 02/364-7822