Mohamed Nagy Museum is a
photography
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and biographical art history
museum
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located at 9 Mahmoud El Gendi Street, close to the
Giza Plateau
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[ in the Haram district of Giza, in the southwest of the ]Greater Cairo
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metropolis, Egypt
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. It was initially Mohamed Nagy
Mohamed Nagy Ismail Afash (Arabic script: ); born 30 October 1984), known by his nickname Gedo (, , which means ''Grandpa'' in Egyptian Arabic), is an Egyptian footballer who plays for National Bank of Egypt in the Egyptian Premier League, as ...
's studio which he founded in 1952. Nagy was a pioneer of modern Egyptian photographic art and is considered in modern Egypt to be one the country's most renowned painters.
History
Nagy had pioneered Egyptian photographic modern art on his return from Florence
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where he had been training, and in 1952, while director of the Museum of Modern Art (now the Gezira Center for Modern Art), he developed a plot of land that he owned and built his studio. Following his death in his studio in 1956, in 1962 his life and work were commemorated by the Ministry of Culture Ministry of Culture may refer to:
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which purchased his studio and converted it into a museum named in his honour. The museum has 1,200 exhibits; initially his sister, Effat Nagy, who was also a painter and has another museum devoted to her work,History of Effat Nagy and Saad al-Khadem Museum
FineArt.gov.eg, Retrieved 16 September 2015[ Nagy's painting "Egyptian Revival," which had been displayed in the Paris Salon and honored with a gold medal, is housed in the museum.][
The museum has published a catalogue titled ''The Family of the Artist in the Country''.]
See also
* List of museums devoted to one photographer
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