Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum

The Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum is an art museum at 1 Kafour Street, off the Giza Nile Corniche in Dokki, Giza, Egypt. It is housed in the former villa of the collector and politician Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil, a palace-style building from the 1920s, and holds one of the finest collections of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European art in the Middle East. The collection includes works by French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters such as Monet, Renoir, Degas, Gauguin, Van Gogh and Rodin, along with Delacroix, Courbet and Toulouse-Lautrec, alongside sculptures, ceramics and antique furniture from Europe and the Islamic world. Visitors move through the ground-floor and upper-level rooms, which retain the character of the private residence, with ornate ceilings, marble staircases and period furnishings. The garden around the villa gives a quiet setting for a short break. A visit generally takes one and a half to two hours. The museum has been affected over the years by theft and security closures, so visitors should check that it is open before travelling. The foreign adult ticket price is not published online, with older listings giving EGP 25 to 30 (~$0.50-0.60) and recent guides reporting a rise of about EGP 10 for foreigners, so the price should be confirmed at the ticket window. The opening hours are reported at about 10:00 to 16:00, closed on Fridays and reportedly on Mondays. The museum is calm throughout the week, with small groups of art students and tourists, and weekday mornings are the quietest. For photographs, the main staircase and the garden facade are favoured, though photography rules for the paintings should be confirmed with the staff. The museum is a 10 to 15 minute taxi from Dokki Metro station on Line 2, or 10 to 15 minutes by Uber from Mohandessin or Zamalek.