Museum · Egypt
Abdeen Palace Museum
قصر عابدين
Khedive Ismail's seat of government in central Cairo, whose museum wings show royal arms, silverware, medals, gifts and documents.
Where it is
30.0428, 31.2475
Why go
Khedive Ismail ordered Abdeen Palace in 1863 so that Egypt's ruler could govern from the new European-style city rather than the Citadel; it served as the seat of government until 1952 and remains a presidential palace. Part of it became a museum under King Fouad, and the collection is now arranged in several museums: arms, presidential gifts, historical documents, decorations and medals, and royal silverware. Its halls, designed by the French architect Rousseau, show European palace taste of the 1870s with Italian, Turkish and French decoration.
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