The Museum of Modern Egyptian Art, is Cairo, Egypt's main modern art museum holding collections of early 20th Century contemporary art pioneers, including Mahmoud Said, Ragheb Ayad, Gazbeya Sirry, Abdel Hadi Al-Gazzar, among others. It was inaugurated in 1927 and is part of the National Cultural Centre in the former fair grounds of Zamalek.
Collections
The museum holds more than 13,000 paintings and sculptures that show the development of the Egyptian art movement from the early 20th century pioneers through contemporary artists' works. There is are permanent and temporary exhibits of works by renowned Egyptian artists, such as:
Mahmoud Sa'id
Ragheb Ayad
Mohammed Naghi
Gazbia Sirry
Inji Eflatoun
Tahia Halim
Abdel Hadi Al-Gazzar
Ahmed Morsi
Ibrahim Mohammed Khalil
Georges Al-Sabbagh
George Bahgoury
Salah Abdel-Karim
Adam Henein
Abdel-Badie Abdel-Hay
Mahmoud Moussa
Hamed Abdallah
See also
El Sawy Culture Wheel
Museum of Islamic Ceramics
Index: Egyptian artists
Note: The similarly named but separate modern art institution, the Museum of Modern Art in Egypt, is in Port Said, Egypt, near the confluence of the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean.