Egypt

Mrs. Mubarak to open Mohammad Ali's jewellery museum

Egypt State Information Service

Culture Minister Farouk Hosni said that Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak will open in October the Royal Jewelry Museum in the coastal city of Alexandria.

He said that the museum will showcase a wide array of masterpieces of necklaces, medals and diamonds belonging to Ottoman Mohammed Ali, whose family ruled Egypt for 147 years starting from 1805.

It will also display breathtaking tools, coins and pots, he said.

“The restoration of the museum's showroom took three years and cost LE 50 million,” said Culture Minister Farouk Hosni.

Dr. Zahi Hawwas, the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the museum would display a host of rare jewels of Mohammed Ali's family.

“Those jewels were seized by the Army after of the 1952 Revolution,” said Hawwas.

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