Consists of two houses dating back to the Ottoman era

77 years since the opening of the Gayer Anderson Museum in Egypt

The museum is located in the Sayeda Zeinab district in the heart of Cairo.

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The Gayer Anderson Museum in the Sayeda Zeinab district of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, celebrated yesterday the 77th anniversary of its opening, which falls on July 17 of each year.

Head of the Museums Sector at the Supreme Council of Egyptian Antiquities, Moamen Othman, said that the celebration of the occasion included the holding of various activities, including an exhibition of traditional crafts, which included 100 pieces of art from the creations of the participants in the workshops organized by the museum since the beginning of this year.

While the museum's general manager Mervat Ezzat explained that the Gayer Anderson Museum consists of two houses dating back to the Ottoman era during the 16th and 17th centuries AD, and they were linked to a bridge in the early 20th century.

She added that the museum consists of 29 halls, the most famous of which are Indian, Chinese, and Damascene, and each of them contains furniture of the same style as the hall.

The museum also includes a group of halls that follow the architecture of the house, including the harem, winter and summer men, and celebrations, in addition to a group of modern halls, such as the two halls of the doors of al-Kiritliya and the al-Kiritli masterpieces.

It is noteworthy that the first house was established by the master Abd al-Qadir al-Haddad in 1041 AH / 1631 AD, and the second house was established by Haji Muhammad bin Salem bin Jallam al-Jazzar in 947 AH / 1540 AD.

The two houses are an example of Egyptian houses during the Islamic eras, and they combine the elements of architecture in the Mamluk and Ottoman eras, and both were known as the “Kiritliya House”, in reference to the last family that resided in them, where one of the families came from the island of Crete.

In 1935, the English officer, Gayer Anderson Pasha, submitted a request to the Committee for the Preservation of Arab Antiquities to live in the two houses, restore and furnish them, and display his archaeological collection dating back to different eras and civilizations. Converting the two houses into a museum named after Jair Anderson.

The Committee for the Preservation of Arab Antiquities approved the request and turned the two houses into a museum in the name of Jayer Anderson on July 17, 1943.

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