The Postal Museum
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 […]
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 […]
This art gallery tucked deep into downtown among mechanics’ shops is the best place to see the rotating work of up and coming Egyptian artists. Keep an eye out for […]
A stunningly clean and bright set of halls where you can hear from college age soldiers in maroon sweaters all about Egypt’s 20th century wars,; 1973, 1956, 1948. The 1967 […]
A museum with a strange assortment of modern art that, in 2010, had so little security a friend of mine touched this Van Gogh with her fingers. About a month […]
Cairo has a Tomb to the Unknown Soldier, and like the one in the U.S., it is more of an attraction for foreign dignitaries and a few local tourists. The […]
The National Military Museum takes up the former palace of Muhammad Ali, widely seen as the founder of modern Egypt, whose dynasty lasted from 1805 until 1952. The museum was […]
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, […]
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 […]
In 1964, anthropologists photographed Nubian houses and “objects of material culture,” meaning the belongings of the families, so they wouldn’t drown in the flood caused by the High Dam’s construction. […]
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 […]