Wissa Wassef Art Center
Wissa Wassef Art Center is a museum in Giza Governorate, Egypt. Wissa Wassef Art Center is situated nearby to Mariotya Canal, as well as near Adam Henein Museum.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Great Sphinx and Sphinx Stele.
Great Sphinx
Work of art
Photo: Maveric149, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Great Sphinx of Giza is a limestone statue of a reclining sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a human and the body of a lion. The monument was sculpted from the limestone bedrock of the Eocene-aged Mokattam Formation and faces east on the Giza Plateau, on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt. Great Sphinx is situated 4 km west of Wissa Wassef Art Center.
Sphinx Stele
Photo: Chanel Wheeler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Dream Stele, also called the Sphinx Stele, is an epigraphic stele erected between the front paws of the Great Sphinx of Giza by the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose IV in the first year of the king's reign, 1401 BC, during the 18th Dynasty. Sphinx Stele is situated 4 km west of Wissa Wassef Art Center.
Sphinx Temple
Photo: HoremWeb, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sphinx Temple is situated 3½ km west of Wissa Wassef Art Center.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nazlet Al Siman and Al Sisi and Giza.
Nazlet Al Siman and Al Sisi
Neighborhood
Photo: Maveric149, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nazlet Al Siman and Al Sisi is a neighborhood, which is situated 3 km west of Wissa Wassef Art Center.
Giza
Photo: Maveric149, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Picture yourself in Egypt and you picture this. Imagine Ancient Egypt and this is where your mind will land. Here is Giza, the city just west of Cairo, where on a desert plateau stand the Pyramids, Sphinx and royal tombs of the pharaohs.
Ma’adi
Ma'adi is a leafy and formerly suburban district of Cairo, south of the city center on the eastern bank of the Nile. Ma'adi was established in 1904, when a railway was built through the area to connect Cairo and Helwan to the south.
Wissa Wassef Art Center
- Type: Museum
- Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
- Location: Giza Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
29.9692° or 29° 58′ 9″ northLongitude
31.17647° or 31° 10′ 35″ eastOpen location code
7GXHX59G+MHOpenStreetMap ID
node 961793913OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museum
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