Museum · Egypt
Museum of Modern Egyptian Art
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The national collection of modern Egyptian painting and sculpture, housed in a 1936 building in the Opera House grounds on Gezira.
Where it is
30.0428, 31.2231
Why go
Sited within the grounds of the Cairo Opera House on Gezira Island, the museum occupies a 1936 building first known as the Grand Saraya. It was refitted as the permanent home of the collection and opened officially in October 1991. It presents Egypt's modern visual art, a counterpart to the antiquities collections elsewhere in the city, and sits among Gezira's other cultural institutions.
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