Guyer-Anderson Museum
Egypt, Cairo, Al-Sayeda Street, Tulun,
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The Guyer-Anderson Museum is located in the southern part of Cairo’s old Muslim district, next to the Tulun Mosque. The museum consists of 2 buildings connected by the gallery - Beit al-Kiritiliya and Beit Amna Bent Salim. One of the buildings was built in 1540, the second in 1631. In 1934, the houses were sold to the government, which in turn gave them to the British military doctor Major Guyer-Anderson.
The Englishman restored both houses, preserving the medieval interior and placing here a rich collection of works of art, antiques, clothes and trinkets of different historical eras.
In the halls of the museum you can see antique furniture, Arab costumes, carpets, glassware and crystal. Visitors are presented with statues of Queen Nefertiti and goddess Bastet, a wooden ceiling decorated with scenes from the Koran, a marble fountain in the living room. Guyer-Anderson's office hasn't changed anything since his death, and photographs of the Englishman's family still hang on the walls of his office.
In the interiors of the museum filmed one of the Bond series – “The Spy Who Loved Me”.