Mohamed Nagy Museum

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Mohamed Nagy Museum is a photography and biographical art history museum in Giza, Egypt. It is located at 9 Mahmoud El Gendi Street, close to the Giza Plateau, in the southwest of the Greater Cairo metropolis, Egypt. It was initially Mohamed Nagy's studio which he founded in 1952. Nagy was a pioneer of modern Egyptian photographic art and is considered in modern Egypt to be one the country's most renowned painters. After Mohamed Nagy's death it was formally inaugurated as a museum on 13 July 1968 by Tharwat Okasha, the Egyptian Minister of Culture. In 1991 the museum was refurbished.

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