Museum · Egypt
Ali Labib House (House of Egyptian Architecture)
بيت علي لبيب
An eighteenth-century Cairo house once home to artists, now a museum of architecture and base of the House of Egyptian Architecture.
Where it is
30.0324, 31.2583
Why go
This eighteenth-century house on Darb al-Labbana lane is among the best-preserved examples of Cairo domestic architecture from that period. Founded by the brothers Umar and Ibrahim al-Malatili and later named after Ali Labib, it became known as the House of Artists because painters and filmmakers including Ragheb Ayyad and Shadi Abd al-Salam lived there. After decades of neglect it was renovated around the turn of the millennium and converted into a museum of architecture housing the House of Egyptian Architecture.
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