Gayer-Anderson Museum Review

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Gayer-Anderson Museum

  • Address: 4 Maydan Ibn Tulun, Cairo
  • Phone: 02/364-7822

Fodor's Review:

Also known as Bayt al-Kiritliya, the museum consists of two Ottoman houses joined together, restored, and furnished by Major Gayer-Anderson, a British member of the Egyptian civil service in the 1930s and '40s. Gayer-Anderson was a talented collector and the house's contents include lovely pieces of pharaonic, Islamic, and Central Asian art. Spend some time in the reception room, where a mosaic fountain lies at the center of an ornate marble floor. In the courtyard of the east house is the "Well of Bats," the subject of much storytelling in the neighborhood.

  • Cost: £e16
  • Open: Daily 8-5; closed during Friday prayers
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