] Mukhtar Museum is a museum in

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...

, housing the

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

s of

Mahmoud Mokhtar Mahmoud Mukhtar ( ar, محمود مختار) (May 10, 1891 – March 28, 1934) was an Egyptian sculptor. He attended the College of Fine Arts in Cairo upon its opening in 1908 by Prince Yusuf Kamal, and was part of the original "Pioneers" of the ...

(May 10, 1891 – March 28, 1934). Mokhtar is considered to be significant as the father of modern Egyptian sculpture. His tomb is in the basement of the museum. The museum building was designed by

Ramses Wissa Wassef Ramses Wissa Wassef (1911–1974) was an Egyptians, Egyptian Copts, Coptic architect and professor of art and architecture at the College of Fine Arts in Cairo and founder of the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre. Biography Ramses Wissa Wassef was b ...

, and houses eighty-five bronze, stone, basalt, marble, granite and plaster works. The museum has two floors with eight rooms of exhibits. One room is dedicated to Saad Zaghloul.

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Mahmoud mokhtar museum on Finearts sector

Mahmoud mokhtar full biography
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