Egyptian Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art in Cairo is easy to find – it is located directly opposite the Cairo Opera. It reopened in 2005 and was preceded by a long renovation. Here are the works of Egyptian artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

The museum’s most important exhibition, Art Today, is located on the ground floor. Here are exhibited the works of 95 artists executed from 1975 to the present day.

The most notable exhibits of the museum are the bronze statue of sculptor Mahmoud Mukhtar “Bride of the Nile”, the paintings by Mahmoud Said “City” and “Date” by Rahgeb Ayad.

For visitors to the museum there is a cafe and a souvenir shop with postcards and posters located on the top floor of the three-storey building of the museum.