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Agricultural
Museum
The
Agricultural Museum is a museum in Cairo, Egypt.
History
The Palace of Princess
Fatima, the daughter of Khedive
Ismail, was chosen to be remodeled to house
the museum, and construction of the museum started in November
1930.
The
Agricultural Museum is one of the largest museums in the world as
it represents the agriculture process in ancient times, which
allows the visitor to identify the evolution of life in the
Egyptian countryside.
This museum is located in the Giza
governorate - northern Egypt - In one of its neighborhoods "Doki"
and includes 7 large museums, on an area of 30 acres (125 square
meters), it was opened 60 years ago, and contains thousands of
exhibits dealing with the history of agriculture in Egypt since the
first human steps on the land of Egypt, until the present
time.
It
is the second most important place that specializes in
´agriculture´ in the world after the Agricultural Museum in the
Hungarian capital ´Budapest´. The establishment of the Agricultural
Museum goes back to the era of King Fouad I, who felt that it was
necessary to establish an Egyptian Agricultural Museum, with a main
mission to disseminate information of agricultural and economic
development in the country, the king hired the designer of the
Agricultural Museum in the Hungarian capital «Budapest» to design
and establish the Egyptian Agricultural Museum. The saray of
Princess Fatima Ismail, Khedive Ismail´s daughter, was chosen to be
the Museum.
The
museum has a rare collection that does not exist anywhere in the
world, including the extinct plant of "Barads", which was sacred in
the Pharaonic era.
KING FAROUK OPENING THE MUSEUM
1938
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