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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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...
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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, who restored two adjacent 16th- and 17th-century houses decorated with mashrabiyya screens and marble inlays.
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Attraction type: Art museum,
Historic home
Address: 4 Maydan Ibn Tulun
Old Cairo Cairo
Egypt
Old Cairo Cairo
Egypt
Tel: 02/364-7822
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