Even if you have no interest in agriculture, check out this museum. Of the 125 thousand square meters, only 20 thousand are given over to the museum building, of which another 20 percent are a riot of rare flowers and plants. The extensive gardens are an oasis of peaceful greenery in a capital city with a frenetic pace.
Originally the palace of the Princess Fatma, daughter of the Khedive Ismail, it took the Ministry of Agriculture eight years to prepare the palace, which was opened as a museum in 1938. It contains 10 halls, some of which are closed.
There’s something for everyone. Bread, a vital part of life in Egypt, gets its own hall, with everything from different kinds of wheat to a machine used for filtering flour in ancient Egypt. Take a walk though the Egyptian countryside on the ground floor. And bug fans can get all fluttery over the insect collection, which actually contains a display of rare luminous bugs.
An immense complex with planted grounds covering around 100 thousand square meters and structures possessing another 20 thousand square meters, the Agricultural Museum of Cairo is a ton to take in. Established in 1930, the exhibition hall was to be the main agrarian gallery on the planet. The originators looked for a stupendous area to show a terrific assortment, subsequently the exhibition hall was introduced in the castle of Princess Fatima.
The assortment contains a huge range of items in ten corridors. One lobby specifically compelling is the “exhibition hall of bread,” gave completely to heating, machines utilized in preparing, and shows of different kinds of bread. Assortments in different corridors incorporate a room of wax models of run of the mill Egyptian dinners, an enormous choice of protected creatures, and absorption shows including an expanded dairy animals’ stomach. The genuine feature of the historical center, in any case, is the Scientific Collection Hall, which contains an astonishing cluster of wax anatomical models, taxidermy, creepy crawly assortments, life systems examples and general peculiarities, all of which have been minimal changed since the 1930s.
