Minister of Antiquities Dr. Khaled Al-Anani opened on Tuesday 7/2/2017 the Museum of Fishing at the Mohammed Ali Palace Museum in Manial, in the presence of a number of ambassadors and directors of foreign institutes in Egypt and leaders of the Ministry of Antiquities and University professors.
Ilham Salah, head of the ministry's museum department, explained that the re-opening of the fishing museum after ten years of closure is a good indication of the Ministry of Antiquities' keenness to complete the development projects and rehabilitate a number of Egyptian museums. Activate the role of the museum as a cultural educational institution.
Salah pointed out that the project of rehabilitation and opening of the fishing museum amounted to about 140 thousand Egyptian pounds funded by the historic project of Cairo, where the museum sector began about three months ago in the preparation of butterflies and the scenario of the museum exhibition and paints and lighting system, self-help through the restoration of the Palace Museum Manial and under the supervision of the museum sector, while the museum display scenario was implemented under the supervision of Sameh Al Masri and his team.
For his part, Walaauddin Badawi, Director General of the Museum of Mohammed Ali Palace in Manial, said that the museum displays 1180 pieces of animals, birds and stuffed butterflies belonging to King Farouk, Prince Mohammed Ali Tawfiq and Berenus Yusuf Kamal during their fishing trips, as well as skeletons of camel and horse that were placed on them The cover of the Kaaba during the journey of the loader and the travel of cladding from Egypt to the land of Hijaz, and a group of Underwater butterflies stuffed with the group of Prince Mohammed Ali.
Badawi went on to say that the department of museum education at the Mohammed Ali Palace Museum has allocated a part at the end of the museum to set up recreational activities for children so that they can draw pictures of the children.
The Museum of Fishing dates back to 1963. After the July 1952 Revolution, the idea of its creation came to include the animals, birds and butterflies that were hunted by the royal family. In 2007, the Mohammed Ali Palace Museum was completely closed to begin its restoration project. It was opened in March 2015, It is noteworthy that the Ministry of Antiquities represented in the museum sector last November in the work of the finishes of the museum to receive visitors again and to add to the series of Egyptian museums, which is monitored through the exhibits of one of the important historical periods experienced by Egypt.
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