Guide To The Gayer Anderson Museum Cairo

Download or read book guide to the gayer - anderson museum cairo written by nibolas warner and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gayer-Anderson Museum is housed in the Bayt al-Kritliya, a sixteenth-century merchant’s house that stands adjacent to the ninth-century mosque of Ibn Tulun in one of the oldest quarters of Cairo. In the 1930s the house served as the home of R.G. Gayer-Anderson Pasha, an English doctor and art collector, who furnished it with his collections and left it to the Egyptian government in 1945. The house and the collection together then became the Gayer-Anderson Museum, which remains open to visitors to this day. This updated guide to the museum is illustrated with black-and-white photographs and includes complete floor plans.