Established | 1968 |
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Location | 9 Mahmoud El Gendi Street, Haram district, Giza,[1] Egypt |
Type | Art history museum |
Collection size | Paintings and sketches of Mohamed Nagy |
Visitors | Public |
Mohamed Nagy Museum is a photography and biographical art history museum located at 9 Mahmoud El Gendi Street, close to the Giza Plateau, [2] in the Haram district of Giza,[3] in the southwest of the Greater Cairo metropolis, Egypt. It was initially Mohamed Nagy's studio which he founded in 1952. Nagy was a pioneer of modern Egyptian photographic art and is considered in modern Egypt to be one the country's most renowned painters.[4] After his death it was formally inaugurated as a museum on 13 July 1968 by Tharwat Okasha, the Egyptian Minister of Culture. In 1991 the museum was refurbished.[2][4][5]