Cultury is a cultural companion written for weekend visitors — the ones who have already walked the Tutankhamun galleries and are ready for the quieter rooms behind them.
Every month we publish a handful of letters about museums that don't always make the first page of a guidebook — palace-museums, house-museums, neighbourhood museums. These are our current six.
Hidden behind an unremarkable façade in old Cairo, this is one of the world's richest collections of Islamic decorative art. A weekend visitor's companion to the rooms that reward time.
The private collection of an early-twentieth-century Egyptian statesman, now a public museum in Giza. How thirty Impressionist masters ended up on the west bank of the Nile — and what the rooms feel like on a quiet afternoon.
Prince Mohamed Ali Tewfik's palace on Rhoda Island is five buildings in five styles, a garden of rare trees, and a small royal museum. A wander through the most romantic open-air museum in Cairo.
Tucked into the Cairo Opera House grounds in Gezira, this museum traces Egyptian painting from the 1910s pioneers to the present. The canvases that defined modern Egyptian visual identity.
The former residence of the Egyptian royal family now houses five themed museums — silver, arms, medals, presidential gifts, and historical documents. A surprisingly sprawling afternoon.
An officer of the British army spent fifteen years filling two seventeenth-century Cairene houses with oriental antiques. The result is a perfectly preserved interior — and, for fans, the setting of a James Bond chase scene.
A city's museums tell you, over time, what the city is willing to remember about itself — and what it isn't. Cultury is an attempt to pay attention to the remembering, slowly, on weekends, from an editorial office two streets from the Alexandria tram. — the Cultury editors