Gayer-Anderson Museum
Two 16th-17th century Cairo houses filled with a British collector's furnishings
About
Formed from two adjoining houses beside the Ibn Tulun mosque, one built in 1540 and the other in 1632, the museum takes its name from Major Robert Gayer-Anderson, who lived there from 1935 to 1942 and left his collection of furniture, carpets, and curiosities to Egypt on his departure. Its ornate reception rooms and mashrabiya-screened roof garden later appeared in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Photographs and artwork
Photographers and artists of Cairo
We are telling the story of how Cairo shops for food: the chains, the baqals, the kiosks, and the map of where they all are. It is a story made of numbers, and it is missing your pictures. Send us photographs or artwork of the grocery experience in this city. Your name is on everything we publish.
For example
- Someone buying tomatoes.
- A woman comparing two packets of pasta.
- Or surprise us. You know this city better than any brief we could write.
