Egyptian Museum

 History Of the Egyptian Museum Cairo

The possibility of an exhibition hall for Egyptian ancient pieces in Egypt returns to Muhammad Ali Pasha, who was emissary of Egypt from 1805 to 1848. Endeavoring to stop the product of artifacts, he gave a declaration on the fifteenth of August 1835, which brought about the principal Egyptian historical center for ancient pieces in Cairo. Housed in a structure close to El-Ezbekia Garden, the presentation was planned by Hakikan Effendi, and the assortment was overseen by Youssef Diaa Effendi. Simultaneously, Sheik Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, who was answerable for the uncovering and protection of Egyptian landmarks, additionally requested that no further unearthings be attempted without his consent. He declared that the product of antiquities from Egypt was totally prohibited, and that all observes were to be shipped to the El-Ezbekia Museum.

In 1851, under the rule of Abbas I, the whole assortment was moved from El-Ezbekia to one of the lobbies inside the Citadel of Salah El-Din (Saladin), where it was available just to private guests. Be that as it may, in 1854, the vast majority of the articles were proposed to Austria's successor to the privileged position, Archduke Maximilian, who had shown incredible interest in them during his visit to Egypt. They presently address a significant piece of the Egyptian assortment in the Kunst historisches Museum in Vienna.

In 1858, the emissary Said Pasha designated the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette as Director of another historical center in the Boulaq area of Cairo. Mariette had been sent set for Egypt by the Louver Museum and had rapidly made significant disclosures, remembering the mausoleums of the Serapeum for Saqqara. This gallery building had initially obliged the Nile Navigation Company at the Boulaq Harbor, presently found near the State Television Building and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs In 1859, 

after the revelation of the memorial service hardware of Queen Ahhotep at Dra' Abu el-Naga in Thebes, the Pasha conceded assets to broaden the structure. The proper initiation of the Boulaq Museum occurred on the eighteenth of October 1863, and was gone to by Khedive Ismail. Nonetheless, the historical center immediately turned out to be too little to even consider lodging every one of the curios that kept on being added to the first assortment, and by 1869 the structure was broadened by and by. Terrible Nile floods in 1878 brought about genuine harm to the gallery and it stayed shut to people in general for fix, until its resuming in 1881. The chance of future flooding, alongside the 1881 revelation of the reserve of illustrious mummies at Deir el-Bahari, made it obvious that the gallery required new quarters.

This equivalent year likewise saw the death of Mariette, who was prevailed by the French Egyptologist of Italian beginnings, Gaston Maspero, as Director of the Boulaq Museum and Department of Antiquities. By 1890, the general size of the assortment had expanded past the Boulaq Museum's capacity to contain a consistently developing number of articles. Because of this, the whole assortment was moved to the Ismail Pasha Palace in Giza, situated in the space of the present-day Giza Zoo.

In March 1893, the Ministry of Public Works met to talk about whether to lay out another historical center of relics, or just keep the assortments in the Ismail Pasha Palace, in the wake of making a few remodels to the structure. It was the new Director of the Antiquities Service, Jacques de Morgan (1892-1897), who encouraged the Egyptian Government to develop another gallery.It was to be implicit the downtown area, in Ismailia Square (the present Tahrir Square), between the Nile and the British military quarters of Qasr el-Nil. 87 recommendations for the new development project were submitted, lastly the plan for a Neo-Classical construction by the French draftsman Marcel Dourgnon was picked.

Somewhere in the range of 1893 and 1895, not long after the launch of the Ismail Pasha Palace Museum, an authority board of the Ministry of Public Works reported a worldwide rivalry for the plan of another Egyptian Museum, allowing a prize honor of 1,000 Egyptian Pounds to the champ.

The Marseille stone carver Ferdinand Faivre was charged to make the two huge sculptures whcih flank the fundamental entryway addressing Upper and Lower Egypt. The foundation of the Egyptian Museum was laid on the first of April 1897, within the sight of Khedive Abbas Hilmy. On the seventh of May 1900, following three years of work, the first antiques were set in quite a while. Logical management and the errand of setting up the assortment was shared with Gaston Maspero.