The museum, which is directly beside the Ibn Tulun Mosque in a patrician residence built in 1631, is definitely worth visiting.
Cairo owes it to the collector’s passion of a British army doctor, John Gayer-Anderson, who purchased the house in the 1930s and kept it from decay. The interior furnishings correspond to those of a traditional noble Arab home. Art objects from Gayer-Anderson’s collection are also exhibited.














