It is a part of the National Cultural Center, along with the Cairo Opera House, and it is located on the same grounds as the opera house, on a Nile River island known as Gezira Island. Egyptian Modern Art Museum by Seif Kamel In Egypt's urban centers in the twentieth and now the twenty-first century, the growing interest in world art was part of an expanding international awareness and a booming modernist culture. The Museum of Modern Egyptian Art is also known as the Gezira Center for Modern Art and the Egyptian Modern Art Museum. The Museum of Modern Egyptian Art in Cairo has 10,000 paintings and statues on display.

The museum was partially open (just the ground floor gallery; hence the free entry) due to …

THis is small but gives a good flavour of Egyptian Modern art. There are sculptures and also collages. This vast collection of 20th- and 21st-century Egyptian art is set in the green, well-groomed Gezira Exhibition Grounds, across from the Cairo Opera House. No photography which is crazy, and the security guards were watching the whole time. Its in one big …

The museum’s highlights are Mahmoud Mukhtar’s deco-elegant bronze Bride of the Nile, along with Mahmoud Said’s painting Al Madina (The City, 1937).