Mukhtar Museum

Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egypt's Renaissance (created 1919-1928)

Mukhtar Museum is a museum in Cairo, Egypt, housing the sculptures of Mahmoud Mokhtar (May 10, 1891-March 28, 1934). Mokhtar is considered to be significant as the father of modern Egyptian sculpture.

The museum building was designed by Ramses Wissa Wassef, and houses eighty-five bronze, stone, basalt, marble, granite and plaster works.

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Coordinates: 30°02′26″N 31°13′22″E / 30.0405°N 31.2229°E / 30.0405; 31.2229

Museums in Egypt

Egyptian National Military Museum
Abdeen Palace Museum
Agricultural Museum
Ahmed Shawki Museum
Alexandria National Museum
Alexandria Aquarium Museum
Al Minya Museum
Al-Alemein War Museum
Ashmunein open air museum
Aswan Museum
Bayt Al-Suhaymi
Beit El-Umma (House of the People)
Beni Suef Museum
Beshtak Palace
Cairo Aquarium Museum
Cairo Zoologica Museum
Carriage Museum
Child Museum
Constantine P. Cavafy museum in Alexandria
Coptic Museum
Denshway Museum
Egyptian Geological Museum
Gamal Abdel Nasser Museum
Gayer-Anderson Museum
Gezira Center for Modern Art
Graeco-Roman Museum
Imhotep Museum
Ismaïlia Museum
Karanis Site Museum
Karnak open air museum
Kasr (Qasr) El-Gawhara (Jewel Palace)
Kharga Museum
Library of Alexandria Museum
Luxor Museum
Manyal Palace
Marine Museum
Mallawi Museum
Memphis open air museum
Military Museum
Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum
Mohamed Nagy Museum
Mukhtar Museum
Mummification Museum
Museum of Egyptian Antiquities
Museum of Egyptian Railways
Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo
Museum of Islamic Ceramics
Museum of Modern Art in Egypt
National Museum
Nubian Museum
Oceanographic museum in Alexandria
Om Kalthoum Museum
Pharaonic Village
Postal Museum
Prince Amr Ibrahim Palace
Princess Fatma Al-Zahra' Palace museum
Qasr Al-Eini Museum
Ramses Wessa Wassef Art Center
Adam Henein Museum
Royal Jewelry Museum
Taha Hussein Museum
Underwater museum in Alexandria

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