If you walk around downtown Cairo, you will definitely see this Museum and be curious about its history and what is in it? This time Mamazorayas will review the Mahmoud Mukhtar Museum
LOCATION OF MUSEUM: El Tahrir, Zamalek, Cairo Governorate 4270001
Mukhtar Museum is a museum in Cairo, Egypt that houses Mahmoud Mokhtar's sculptures (May 10, 1891 – March 28, 1934). Mokhtar is widely regarded as the founder of contemporary Egyptian sculpture. His mausoleum is located in the museum's basement.
Ramses Wissa Wassef designed the museum, which includes 85 bronze, stone, basalt, marble, granite, and plaster works.
The museum comprises two levels and eight display rooms. One room is named after Saad Zaghloul.
Born in the Nile Delta in the town of Tanbara, where his father was the mayor , in the area of Mahalla al-Kubra.
Mukhtar travelled to Cairo with his mother as a kid and enrolled in the newly established Egyptian School of Fine Arts in 1908 by Prince Yusuf Kamal despite his untimely demise, he had a significant effect on the realisation and development of modern Egyptian art.
His work is widely regarded as heralding the start of the Egyptian modernist movement, and he is known as the "Father of Modern Egyptian Sculpture." He was one of the original "Pioneers" of the Egyptian Art movement
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Mahmoud Mukhtar's Egypt's Renaissance 1919–1928, Cairo University Gate
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