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Cairo · Zamalek

The Mahmoud Mokhtar Museum

The sculptor of "Egypt's Awakening", in a pavilion designed for his work.

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Mokhtar invented a modern Egyptian sculpture by taking up pharaonic volumes: peasant women, sphinxes, standing figures. The museum gathers his plasters and bronzes in a low building by the Nile, and takes forty minutes.

The extra bit

Then go and see "Egypt's Awakening" outside Giza zoo: the same hand, at monumental scale.

Know before you go

The museum adjoins the opera house: the two combine in one outing.

Directions

Opera grounds, Zamalek, Cairo

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