MOHAMED NAGY, FOUNDER OF MODERN EGYPTIAN PHOTOGRAPHY ART, museum in gypt , cairo

MOHAMED NAGY, FOUNDER OF MODERN EGYPTIAN PHOTOGRAPHY ART,,,,

Undoubtedly, Mohamed Nagy, the good creative person, is one among the staunch artists World Health Organization contributed abundant to egg laying down the foundations of the fashionable Egyptian photography art.

Mohamed Nagy : 

 

 

 He made associate array of terrific paintings a number of that return to 1907, as he was simply a 19-year-old boy.

He was the primary Egyptian to review the educational art within the Roma of art, Florence. the foremost putting proof to Nagy's distinctive vogue is that his paintings were displayed facet by facet thereupon of most famous French artists in 1920.

In 1922, he met Madam adventurer Adam, the non secular mother of the good leader Mostafa Kamel, and he portrayed her along with his delicate brush, presenting several marvelous paintings.

 About the artist :

 In appreciation of his peculiar color of art, the state honored Nagy, because it turned his studio to a repository housing all masterpieces he created.

Born on January seventeen, 1888 in Alexandria, and raised in wealthy family, Mohamed Nagy was fascinated with all colours of art whereas to a small degree boy. He, as it were, found nothing in world exciting over art. He perfect enjoying the "Aued", as his talent surfaced at early age.

Then he pursued the avenue of art, as he created nice contributions to enhancing the trendy Egyptian photography art.

 

THE IMHOTEP MUSEUM , museum in cairo , egypt

THE IMHOTEP MUSEUM,,,

It was with great excitement that the new Imhotep Museum was opened in April 2006 by Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. A modern museum, both in technology and security, this is a place not to be missed on your next visit to Saqqara. Located twenty kilometers south of the Giza Pyramids, Saqqara is the site of the Step Pyramid and the funerary complex of King Zoser (Djoser), the Pyramid of Unas, the Teti Pyramid, Old Kingdom tombs with scenes of daily life, and much more. The Step Pyramid of Zoser is Egypt's first pyramid, designed by Imhotep, for whom the museum is named. The sands of Saqqara have yielded treasures from the Archaic Period, the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom, Late Period and Greco-Roman Period. And there is still much yet to be discovered! The excavations are continuing and each season more treasures are found.

History of THE IMHOTEP MUSEUM :

 

 In 1997 the building of the new museum began. The idea was to have a special place dedicated only to the many discoveries from this area. Located near the entrance, not far from where the ticket office was formerly located, visitors will be pleased to find artifacts that are attractively displayed, well air-conditioned buildings and modern toilet facilities.

The museum consists of five halls: 1) Theater and model of the funerary complex, 2) Main Hall including the architectural elements, 3) New Discoveries, 4) Model Tomb Hall, and 5) Library of Jean-Philippe Lauer.

Description of  THE IMHOTEP MUSEUM :

 

In the theater visitors can watch a short film made by National Geographic about the Imhotep Museum. In the center of the room is a model of the funerary complex showing the Step Pyramid and surrounding buildings in brilliant white, the way they would have looked when they were new. The model was constructed by Jean-Philippe Lauer (1902-2001), an archeologist that made many discoveries at Saqqara and dedicated his long life to restoring these monuments. One of the halls of the museum is dedicated to preserving his library.
The most noticeable feature of the Main Hall is the blue-green faience. These tiles were collected in the anti-chamber and burial chamber of the Step Pyramid and reconstructed to show visitors how the walls of these chambers and those of the Southern Tomb would have looked in ancient times.

 There is also a statue is of a scribe, Ptah-Shepses (5th Dynasty) from Abu Sir. There are two types of scribe statues – reading and writing. This statue of Ptah-Shepses is a reading scribe.

An impressive collection of large alabaster jars, some over one meter high, date back to the 2nd and 3rd Dynasties. These jars came from the chambers below the Step Pyramid. Included in the display is a block that shows the steps to making the alabaster jars.

 

 

One of the masterpieces now displayed in the "New Discoveries" hall of the museum is a mummy that was found during recent excavations around the Teti Pyramid. When we moved the sands we found a mummy that was the most beautiful mummy I have ever seen. When I saw the mummy for the first time I was shocked. The colors looked like it was painted yesterday – yellow, blue, red and black. We know that it dates to the 30th Dynasty, but regrettably we do not know the name of the owner because there were no inscriptions to tell us. The mask is gilded. The mummy itself was wrapped in linen and is 176 cm in length. The casing is painted with scenes. On the chest there is painted a pectoral with a winged scarab. On each side there are five gods holding scepters. Under the necklace there is a winged goddess, Ma'at, with two feathers. On the legs of the mummy are scenes of the god Anubis performing the mummifications.
 

EGYPTIAN GEOLOGICAL MUSEUM , museum in egypt , cairo

EGYPTIAN GEOLOGICAL MUSEUM,,

The Egyptian Geological Museum is a museum in Cairo, Egypt. The museum was established in 1904 as part of the Egyptian Geological Survey, which had been started in 1896 under the direction of the Khedive Ismail. The museum was the first of its kind in the Middle East and the African continent.

 

History EGYPTIAN GEOLOGICAL MUSEUM:

 

 The museum was initially housed in a Greco-Roman style building that was located in the gardens of the Ministry of Public Works in downtown Cairo; it was designed by Marcel Dourgnon, the French architect who had previously designed and constructed the Egyptian Museum (also known as the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities). The Geological museum had an exhibition hall with ceilings 4 metres (13 ft) high in order to accommodate the reconstructed fossil skeletons of paleontological finds, which included a 3 metres (10 ft) high ancestral elephant. The first Museum Keeper was William Andrews, a paleontologist from London's Natural History Museum, in 1904, who was followed by Henry Osborne in 1906.
The original museum was expanded in 1968 with the construction of an annex designed to house the museum's laboratories for petrology and paleontology.[1] The museum remained there in downtown Cairo until 1982, when the original building was torn down to accommodate construction of the Cairo Metro.

 Present museum:

 

 The museum was transferred to its present location near Maadi, a southern suburb of Cairo.
On display are the Fayoum vertebrates, a series of fossils that had been unearthed in 1898 by geologist Hugh Beadnell at Qasr Al-Sagha to the north of Birqet Qarun in the Fayoum desert.[1] These artifacts were sent to the British Museum for identification and returned to be displayed at the museum. The museum also includes examples of the natural history of Egypt, and how its geology and minerals helped make Egypt a world power.[2]
Also in the museum's collection is the Nakhalite meteorite, a Martian meteorite that fell at the village of El Nakhla El Baharia village in 1911, and is one of rare meteorites known to have their origin in the planet Mars.[1]
One of the main museum exhibitions is the type specimens of Kamil iron meteorite, which is huge iron meteorite fell on the ground 2000–5000 years ago (3-4) to strike the sandstone bedrocks of cretaceous period, 1000 km south west the Egyptian capital Cairo. The huge kinetic energy resulted from the meteorite collision with the ground created a medium-sized crater, 45 meter diameter and 15 meter depth as a result of pushing-off the sandstone country rocks at the point of the impact. The meteorite itself exploded and disrupted into thousands of fragments ranging in size from minute grains of mm-seized up to several centimeters. Both the meteoritic fragments and the sandstone chunks are distributed around the crater in more or less regular arms extend 1-km distance from the crater center. The new Museum administration takes steps to development the services of the museum. From January 2011 the museum staff began in achieving monthly scientific report on one of the interesting museum exhibitions. Now there are comprehensive data on Jebel Kamil meteorite, which represents one of the more interesting exhibitions in the museum, as well as the Egyptian Dinosaurs, the gemstones etc. The museum organizes weekly public meeting to discuss the culture and scientific interest of definite exhibitions of public attention. During the last troubles spread in the government departments, while no visitor enter the exhibition Hall of the Museum, definite objects of historical interest including face of a Pharaonic statue made of basalt and a small Roman statue made of serpentine were disappeared. This is mystery feature for several reasons: There were no visitors to the museum at that time. This was happened at definite time corresponding the second month of coming the new director, who led immediately a comprehensive reform in the various sections of the museum since he became responsible on the museum. There were no any troubles in the museum to account for this mystery habit. The Egyptian Military recovered the objects except the small Roman Statue.