Museum of Islamic Ceramics

The Prince Amr Ibrahim Palace is a historical building in Cairo's Zamalek island, which is used as the Egypt's first ceramics museum, the Museum of Islamic Ceramics and as an art center.

Type: Museum
Description: art museum for ceramics in Cairo, Egypt
Also known as: “Islamic Ceramics Museum”
Address: القاهرة
Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Gezira and All Saints’ Cathedral, Cairo.

Gezira

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Gezira is a district of modern Cairo that occupies the southern portion of the main island in the Nile within Cairo itself; in fact, gezira means "island" in Arabic.

All Saints’ Cathedral, Cairo

Church

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All Saints' Cathedral, Cairo was consecrated in 1988 and is the home of the Episcopal/Anglican Diocese of Egypt with North Africa and the Horn of Africa. All Saints’ Cathedral, Cairo is situated 180 metres north of Museum of Islamic Ceramics.

Egyptian Museum

Museum

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The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, commonly known as the Egyptian Museum and also called the Cairo Museum or the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, is a national history museum in Cairo, Egypt. Egyptian Museum is situated 1½ km southeast of Museum of Islamic Ceramics.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cairo and Zamalek.

Cairo

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Cairo is the capital of Egypt and, with a total population of Greater Cairo metropolitan area in excess of 16 million people, one of the largest cities in both Africa and the Middle East.

Zamalek

Suburb

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Zamalek is a qism within the West District in the Western Area of Cairo, Egypt. It is an affluent district on a man-made island which is geologically a part of the west bank of the Nile River, with the bahr al-a'ma cut during the second half of the 19th Century to separate it from the west bank proper.