Egypt
Al Masry Al Youm
- Cairo Museum Of Islamic Art Opens After A Decade
All About Egypt With video. The largest collection of Islamic art in the world is back on display. After nearly a decade of renovation, Cairo’s Museum of Islamic Art officially opened. The museum is the main abode for the national collection of Islamic...
- 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: First Ever Museum For The Revolution
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) Press release: Culture Minister Farouk Hosni approved the Supreme Council of Antiquities’ (SCA) request to establish a museum for the revolution of July 1953 in Egypt. This will be the first ever museum for the revolution,...
- New Islamic Art Galleries At Brooklyn Museum
Suite 101 The reinstallation of the Islamic art galleries at the Brooklyn Museum includes works from the 8th Century to modern times. Opening June 5, 2009, the permanent display at the Islamic galleries highlights 134 objects from some 1,700 in an American...
- Islamic Museum Badly Damaged
Yesterdays tragic bombing which has left dozens of people injured and left 4 dead has also destroyed the facades of both the Islamic Museum as well as the Egyptian National Library. In the Islamic Museum ceilings have collapsed and the contents of the...
Egypt
The Museum of Islamic Art
Al Masry Al Youm
In general, a museum collection is arranged in one of two ways. Either the pieces unfold chronologically, according to the year they were made, or with narrative, attempting to tell a story or teach a lesson. These days in Egypt, chronology is out and narrative is in, at least as long as Zahi Hawass, the secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SAC), has anything to say about it.
“Chronologically is bad. It doesn’t teach people,” Hawass said from behind his desk in the SCA building in Zamalek as countless assistants materialized from various doors. A red plastic button with the word “bullshit” sits on his desk. One gets the sense that the official makes frequent use of this toy.
The Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo certainly has a story. It is one, of course, of the artifacts it holds--the largest collection of Islamic art in the world, covering 1400 years of Islamic history from Umayyad to Ottoman. It is a story of advances in medicine and the spread of religion, of funerary traditions and science, of changing social mores.
It is a story of inclusiveness.
- Cairo Museum Of Islamic Art Opens After A Decade
All About Egypt With video. The largest collection of Islamic art in the world is back on display. After nearly a decade of renovation, Cairo’s Museum of Islamic Art officially opened. The museum is the main abode for the national collection of Islamic...
- 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: First Ever Museum For The Revolution
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) Press release: Culture Minister Farouk Hosni approved the Supreme Council of Antiquities’ (SCA) request to establish a museum for the revolution of July 1953 in Egypt. This will be the first ever museum for the revolution,...
- New Islamic Art Galleries At Brooklyn Museum
Suite 101 The reinstallation of the Islamic art galleries at the Brooklyn Museum includes works from the 8th Century to modern times. Opening June 5, 2009, the permanent display at the Islamic galleries highlights 134 objects from some 1,700 in an American...
- Islamic Museum Badly Damaged
Yesterdays tragic bombing which has left dozens of people injured and left 4 dead has also destroyed the facades of both the Islamic Museum as well as the Egyptian National Library. In the Islamic Museum ceilings have collapsed and the contents of the...