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Category Archives: kitschy

The Postal Museum

September 29, 2012by emily Leave a comment

Hands down, my favorite museum in Cairo. Located in the main Post Office Building in Ataba, this museum chronicles not only the history of the Egyptian Post, but also the […]

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ataba, history, kitschy, museums, neighborhoods

The Denshawai Museum

September 28, 2012by mauricech Leave a comment

Why would we put a closed museum, hours from anywhere else, on our list of places to go in Egypt? Because the experience is worth it. This is a huge […]

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beyond cairo, defunct, history, kitschy, museums, tanta

October War Panorama

August 17, 2012by mauricech 5 Comments

In 1983, President Hosni Mubarak visited Pyongyang in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. He met Kim Il-Sung, and the Korean leader agreed to furnish the artists who would depict […]

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heliopolis, history, kitschy, military, museums, neighborhoods

Sound and Light Spectacular from Pizza Hut

June 22, 2012by emily Leave a comment

The Sphinx (played by no other than Alec Guinness) narrates the fantastic, florescent story of the pharaohs. His wise voice echoes throughout Giza as the pyramids are illuminated in purple, […]

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food, giza, history, kitschy, museums, neat, neighborhoods

Dr. Ragab’s Pharaonic Village

June 22, 2012by emily Leave a comment

Why visit the pyramids and the Valley of the Kings when you can take a step back in time and experience them as they really were? Why read about ancient […]

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giza, history, kitschy, museums, neighborhoods

Mummified Crocodile Museum

June 11, 2012by mauricech Leave a comment

Opened in 2011, this is not only an amazing place to see numerous, massive crocodiles unwrapped in a glass room like a contemporary art museum oddity, and a set of […]

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beyond cairo, history, kitschy, kom ombo, museums

The Museum of Agriculture

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Built in the late 1950s during the time of the short lived United Arab Republic, when Egypt and Syria were one country, this is, by far, the largest, dustiest, most […]

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dokki, history, kitschy, museums

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