The Art of Egypt

This will be a full day in the comfort of a private vehicle, introducing you to art museums and galleries that will leave you in awe. From the largest museum of Islamic art to the local galleries pushing the boundaries.  Simply exciting!

The Museum of Islamic Art

The Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo is acknowledged as the largest museum in the world specialising in Islamic Art.  Currently, it houses over 100,000 artifacts covering all the different forms of Islamic Art from various periods of Islamic history.

Its collection is comprehensive in quantity and quality.  This has made it a beacon of Islamic art and civilization throughout its history. It has also become the ‘go to’ organisation and library for researchers and historians.  The museum attracts visitors from all walks of life, who are interested in the intricacies of Islamic sciences and disciplines such as medicine, engineering, and astronomy.

Its collection includes metallic, glass, and porcelain utensils, as well as jewelry, weapons, wood and ivory objects, textiles, and carpets. The museum ​also has a large library with a rich collection of specialized books and references covering a wide variety of topics like Islamic history, antiquities, art, and architecture.

Adam Henein Gallery

Adam Henein was renowned as a sculptor since the 1950s and rose to fame for the inspiration his art drew from ancient Egypt. He was awarded the Luxor Studio Scholarship for Distinguished Artists in the West Bank and Qurna in 1954 and 1955 and led the restoration of the Great Sphinx of Giza from 1989 to 1998.

After living in Paris, he returned to Egypt and started the International Sculpture Symposium in Aswan. He received many awards, including Egypt’s State Medal and the Mubarak Award. Henein’s art has been shown worldwide, from Alexandria to Rome, and displayed in world-class platforms like New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The main museum building consists of 3 floors, spread across 700 meters, displaying an array of Adam’s work, featuring sculptures, drawings, paintings, prints, and even textiles. In addition to the main building, the museum’s garden is where Adam’s pieces blend in with nature. This open space is where the museum’s audience can sit down on the lawn and enjoy a cup of coffee while having the opportunity to admire more of Adam’s artworks.

Since Adam himself oversaw and supervised the process of establishing and equipping the museum, you’ll explore this space knowing the artist chose every tiny detail. 

Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Center

Near the pyramids at Giza, the centre was founded in the early 1950s by the late architect Ramses Wissa Wassef as a weaving school. It has since evolved to include workshops and showrooms, a pottery and sculpture museum,  houses and farm buildings, and is constructed entirely of mud brick.

For Wissa Wassef, vaulted and domed mud brick structures represented something quintessentially Egyptian as these forms had been adopted by Paranoiac, Coptic, and Islamic civilisations. The choice of this traditional technology also reflected his desire to transmit the values of handicrafts to succeeding generations in a rapidly industrialising country.

The Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Center was the home of a unique experiment in tapestry weaving that has produced extraordinary works admired and collected by museums and galleries around the world.  His ceramic creations were also a passion throughout his life. 

The Revolving Restaurant – Grand Nile Tower

We enjoy taking our guests out for lunch because it’s another way to experience Egyptian culture. We just want to make the following points. The restaurant that is part of this experience is the revolving restaurant atop the Hilton Hotel. This is one of the top restaurants in Cairo and a chance to not only take in the stunning view of Cairo, but as also a great interlude to a captivating day.

This full day tour can be combined with other tours for a multi day experience with One Horizon.  The other tours include Khan El Khalili Bazaar, Old Cairo (Coptic and Islamic History), the National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation, Stairways to Eternity (The Pyramids of Giza) and many others. Please enquire at One Horizon for your options.

• Pick up and return from your hotel
• Air conditioned luxury vehicles for your private tour
• Lunch
• All entrance fees, service charge, current taxes, and vat.
• Services of an English-speaking guide

Exclusions

• Personal expenditure of any kind
• Tips
• Alcoholic Drinks and extra meals (other than those stated in the itinerary)