Egypt
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Egypt
Farouq Hosni visits textile museum
http://tinyurl.com/c7whf (State Information Service)
"Culture Minister Farouq Hosni has visited Mohamed Ali Sabeel (a public fountain) in Nahasseen district in Cairo after the Supreme Council of Antiquities has turned it into a textile museum within the context of the projects aiming at turning Old Cairo into an open museum for Islamic monuments. The museum consists of different 250 pieces of textiles and 15 carpets from the Pharaonic era till Mohamed Ali Pasha era. The museum also contains drawings, paintings and scripts showing how textile products are made".
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- Mubarak To Open Museum Of Islamic Art
Egypt State Information Service President Hosni Mubarak opens within days the Museum of Islamic Art in the heart of Old Cairo after the Ministry of Culture finalized its renovation which took several years. The Islamic museum holds more than 100,000 artifacts...
- Museum Of Islamic Art To Be Inaugurated
Egypt State Information Service President Hosni Mubarak will inaugurate the Museum of Islamic Art in July after restoration, Culture Minister Farouk Hosni said on Tuesday May 4, 2010. The museum was developed and prepared for tourists to visit, he said....
- New Textile Museum In Cairo
Egypt State Information Service The first Egyptian textile museum will open early next year in Old Cairo. The museum, which cost some LE20 million, will display rare carpets, mates and clothes dating back to different epochs. "It will display...
- Subterranean Vault Dating To 8th Hejira Century
http://tinyurl.com/3bvux7 (sis.gov.eg) "An immense subterranean vault was found beneath the Citadel in Cairo on 7/6/2007, said the Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni. The vault dates back to the era of King Al-Nasser Mohamed Ben Qalawun in the 8th century...
- Sinai Museum To Open Within Days
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o041025d.htm"Al-Arish museum is getting ready to receive tourist as monuments pieces are being moved to it from eight other museums in preparation for its inauguration, expected to be within days. The construction works...